#it might seem kooky crazy but to ME it's romantic

[clownrosary]

“I've been called names, I've been kicked in the dirt, I've had- everything , man. You name it. But this guy calling us a bunch of queers like it was the worst thing we could be…” He closes his eyes, resigned. “I don’t know. I couldn't hold myself back.” Jonathan knows the feeling, if only because of Steve. “You snapped?” 

Steve nods. There’s no way moving his head in any direction doesn’t hurt, but Jonathan knows him enough to know this: if there’s any opportunity to worsen his own pain, rub metaphorical salt in the wound, Steve takes it. Begs for it.

“I couldn't stop it. I wanted to kill him.” His eyes open back up, desperate. “If Rob hadn’t pulled me off of him, I think I would’ve.”

“Now you know how it feels.” Jonathan mutters, selfish and stupid and maybe a little angry. Their past doesn’t hurt him anymore, but now, it’s all he can think of.

Steve pushing him around, calling him a queer. As if that were the worst kind of person he could be. As if they weren’t the same.

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hello stonathan nation <3 today i offer you blood!

[the-fo0l]

Micheal Scofield dating hcs

notes: it's criminal crazy kooky insane how little content there is for this show

warnings: gn reader, s1 lore, super soft fluff!!!! also idc if u think its out of charater let me be delulu

he's so babygirl

a very devoted boyfriend (im pretty sure i say that in all my hcs but its true!!)

just so soft and polite and gentle with you aaaaa

doesn't notice just how hard he's fallen for you until he has to be apart from you a long while

such a gentleman, his intentions towards you are always respectful

before you we're offical he had quite the crush on you

sometimes you could notice that cool, calm, witty demeanor of his becoming more bashful and jittery around you

daydreamed a lot about you and your potential future together. what it'd be like to live with you, to start the day by your side, how you'd show affection, how you'd express diffrent emotions, what you'd talk about, your niche interests and quirks— etc

slightly creepy but he did do a bit of research on you to make sure he hit it off with you as best as he could

always says good night and good morning, over text if not in person

just imagine waking up, still cuddling, but with a little distance so he can properly take in your sleepy morning face

him just gazing at you so lovingly, his gentle smile growing a little bigger seeing you open your eyes, then moving one hand from your waist to caress your cheek and murmur "good morning" with his sultry morning voice

GOOD LORDDD

he developed a new-found love for his job when you two started dating cause thanks to it he can properly provide for you

and provide he does

doesn't think you should have to work a day in your life (unless you wanted to)

he'd hate for you to stay at a job you're miserable at

super proud of you for all your accomplishments

when you have to seperate while walking to avoid something in the street, be immediately reaches back to interwine your fingers again

expresses all love languages in some way but 'acts of service' is his main one

amazing at gift giving and romantic gestures

just when you think he can't possibly out-do last year's anniversary/birthday gift he suprises you with something super elaborate and meaningful

absent-mindedly makes origami flowers for you at work. you'll also find them all over your apartment, some hidden, some in plain sight

at some point he started writing messages on them. some with the most loving praise you've ever heard and some w cheesy pickup lines

p.s. he grins ear to ear when he finds out you've got a special box for them all instead of throwing them away

when you're both still a little tired in the morning, or when either of you comes home after a long day, he peppers delicate kisses all over your face, ending with a deeper kiss to your lips

your touch just makes all the headaches of his day-to-day melt away

also takes both your hands and kisses your knuckles while looking at you with all the love and admiration in the world god lord

okay enough with the kissing!

always opens doors for you

compliments you often, and always uses words like stunning or beautiful instead of "hot

loves making you flustered with praise

he's an amazing listener, and he looooves listening to you talk

also, he's quite intense with the eye-contact

he thinks you're the most gorgeos person in the world what can i say

it might seem like he's not paying attention sometimes cause of how lost-in-your-eyes he seems but i assure you he remembers every little thing you say

nods along and hums a little to let you know he's listening

"i remember you said you liked this, so i got it for you" typa guy

you're happy = he's happy

will often sometimes call you to talk about nothing really important, more just for the sake of hearing your voice

and if you're not much of a talker that's fine too, the silent moments you share are never awkward

he's canonically super observant, so if you changed anything about your apperance or if you were in a bad mood he'd notice right away, even if you tried to hide it

great at comfort too, that silky-smooth voice of his knows exactly what to say

he's a very handsome guy (i mean cmon just look at him) so he tends to get hit-on quite a bit

he'd always brushed it off before but ever since he set his sights on you he's been very adamant on very clearly and quickly rejecting others' attempts

when he was making plans to break linc out of prison, a huge amount of his focus went to making sure you were kept safe during the whole process

having you be there from him after news broke and after linc got the death sentence already meant so much to him

so when he trusted you the broad strokes of his plan, and you supported him??? ohmygod this man fell in love with you all over again

yes, he was worried, but he had to tell you, spending days obsessing over prison schematics and getting full body tattoos is rather hard to hide from the love of your life after all

granted, he could have broken up with you and tried to rekindle after he'd escaped, but be fr he could never bring himself to dump you

you never know what may go wrong, and his love for you wasn't exactly a secret, so he took every precaution he could (as in like if someone wanted to harm you cause of your association with him)

he was still super anxious to let go of you

gave you the most passionate and desperate kiss before he went to prison

gets really really homesick for you

calls you whenever he can

would sometimes get teary-eyed from how hard he misses you before falling asleep in his bunk

would lose his mind if something didn't go according to his carefully constructed plan and put you at risk, cause there's not much he can do to control what happens outside foxriver. if t-bag ever found out about you he'd. freak. out.

he's willing to go to great lengths for the people he cares about (it's like the whole plot of the show), so you'd better not play w his beloved

on the rare occasions he has down-time in prison his thoughts always go to you and what you might be up to

he's surrounded by murderers daily and has the gall to be worried about you

sucre would pester him about his love-life a lot. insisting that he recognized yearning in michael's distant expression and saying that no single man could've helped him woo maricruz with that letter (michael writes love letters for you too)

sucre does eventually pull it out of michael and becomes just the biggest supporter of your relationship

this was kinda messy huh

[bohemian-nights]

My favorite romantic relationship for Daemon was his relationship with Laena. They seemed to have built a healthy and loving relationship and family. Another thing I like was the fact that she was an adult. Both by their standards and by our standards. And how she died was really heartbreaking. That being said the show f*cked them up in every which way. And then they f*cked his relationship with his daughters that while not much is given for in the book you can still make a claim that he loved and cared for them. In conclusion this show is sh*t and if Netty (who unfortunately is Daemons only saving grace) isn’t included this season I will be finding a new fandom to either join/re-join. Maybe my childhood favorite(s) ATLA or Percy Jackson since they both are getting new shows. The Hunger Game franchise just came out with a new movie that is slowly but surely getting me back on the wagon. H*ll I might even trade out one toxic fandom for another, I just can’t decide if it’ll be Bridgerton (though they’re only toxic when it comes to certain characters), Star Wars (I haven’t been apart of this one in a while but if my memory serves me it was just shipping wars) and if I’m really feeling it I’ll go back to Harry Potter (which is low-key worse than HOTD cause the writer is problematic as well as some of the actors/actresses and the stans are crazy and the shipping wars alone can make you leave the fandom ). But yeah I have low hopes for this next season.

Dettles has a special place in my heart, and I believe Nettles was Daemon's person, I will admit that Daemon and Laena is his least problematic ship. Instead of the showrunners giving us a relatively normal healthy loving marriage they gave us dog sh*t and I will forever be pissed off about that🫠

I’m gone too if Nettles is cut.

However, honestly, after this whole situation, I refuse to get involved with another fandom again.

Granted HOTD is probably one of the worst fandoms out there(I feel like it’s worse than GOT fandom), but there are a lot more sh*tty fandoms than there are good ones and I wouldn't want to trade one sh*tty fandom for another.

Star Wars is the same fandom that bullied Jar Jar Binks actor to the point where the poor man was suicidal and they bullied the kid who played Anakin to the point where he quit acting. Not to mention how fans treated John Boyega, Kelly Marien Tran, and Moses Ingram. Those people are just as mentally deranged as HOTD stans. In fact, a lot of Dumbnyra stans ship Reylo💀That’s really the last fandom I’d join. They are one of the OG crazy fandoms.

Never got into the Hunger Games, but I know they had their issues(Rue). Percy Jackson same issue. People’s grievances with JK Rowling aside, the Harry Potter fandom has calmed down, but I imagine the crazy antics will pick up again with the new series. At their height though they were probably running neck and neck with HOTD(I wouldn’t say it’s worse).

I love Avatar. Never got into the fandom(and even if I do decide to write something for Zutara because of this new show that will be my extent of fandom interaction).

Speaking as someone who is in the Bridgerton fandom, while it has its kooky fans they are relatively harmless by fandom standards. (Though I did have some Kathony fans getting mad at me over a non-issue and saying I should stick to watching the incest show🤣 even though I've been watching Bridgerton since the beginning ).

I feel like the type of show it is makes it difficult for really crazy fandom drama to form(which seems to revolve around shipping).

Everyone has their favorite couple of course(Benophie aka the best ship, Kathony, Polin, Saphne, Francheal, Grucy, or hey ship them all), but there is no infighting like Zutara vs Katang or Dramione vs Romione.

There is one ship per guy and girl and you ship them. That’s it. It’s simple. It’s easy. Everyone loves it. Of course, you can fight with another couple, but everyone’s couple is a couple. You can’t deny it’s not canon, that it won’t happen, or that they don’t love each other(well Eloise and her man are iffy, but they are a couple).

I may be biased though considering it’s my favorite show, but even with some kooky stans it’s great.

[whatiwillsay]

I don’t mean any disrespect by this, and pardon my ignorance on the overall manner, but do you think there’s any way that “Kaylor” as a narrative and notion had a significant “push” to become what it has today? I just… can’t understand how it has so many believers, still to this day? How did it reach such great heights in popularity? I’d argue Kaylor isn’t necessarily a niche anymore, but instead… an almost mainstream idea. Fascinating, like someone *pushed* for it to become what is is today

well let me preface this with saying while i am not 100% sold on a romantic/sexual connection between karlie and taylor because karlie and josh really are together (confirmed to me by insiders i trust + they have a baby together) , i am open to it. there's a lot of new york city, messy cruel summers, and illicit affairs in taylor's music so there's definitely room for a kaylor hook-up inspiring some music.

however yes. there was a push to make kaylor beloved by all, but not in the way you think. i've written at length about this to be honest but it's been a hot minute so let's cover it again because i have a LOT of new readers.

that push to popularize kaylor DID exist but they weren't trying to popularize the romantic gay ship kaylor, they were trying to popularize Bestie Goals Taylor Swift is Just Like You Look She Even Has a Cute Bestie Just Like You!

karlie's job was to make taylor seem approachable and not like a man eater (as was the whole squad's job). in early 2013 taylor started to get a bunch of heat for dating around too much, being dramatic about boys, and being a "man eater" or whatever. tina fey and amy poehler made fun of her at the golden globes for dating too much and it drove taylor insane. hence the girl squad, "1989 is not about boys it's about besties", and "look the most important person in my life isn't a man it's karlie kloss!"

but the problem is... taylor is a girl's girl. like she just acts so gay half the time. so the gay ass photoshoots and staring contests and dedications of love and admiration, to many, just made it seem like they were in love (and hell maybe they were). but they weren't intentionally trying to sell love.

they were trying to sell a relatable/non boy crazy image for taylor and guess what? karlie got to sell stuff too. kaylor was at least in part a cross promotional mutually beneficial PR relationship (that doesn't mean it wasn't a love connection privately though, it's possible that it was.)

for example- the famous rolling stone article that said karlie had her own room at taylor's apartment:

kaylors love this article. "ha!" they exclaim. "they were living together! we caught them! why did karlie need her own room at taylor's house she had her own apartment in nyc!" and hey maybe it was weird for Taylor to have a room set aside for Karlie and maybe it was indicative that they were romantically involved.

but if you read the article do you notice anything? there's two sentences in that article that mention karlie. there are also mentions of Victoria's Secret and "kloss's favorite Whole Foods treats" just in those two quick sentences. why would either of those corporations need to be brought up in an article titled "the reinvention of Taylor Swift". well... Karlie ofc works for Victoria's Secret so maybe they're just being informative. but the Whole Foods? what does THAT have to do with anything?

well august 2014 is when Karlie's Kookies launched as a product at Whole Foods. that article prompted people to go, "oh hey! karlie eats snacks from Whole Foods and she's a supermodel i wanna eat the snacks she eats!" and then they would google karlie kloss whole foods, and get a nice little dose of an ad for Karlie's Kookies.

it was marketing.

likewise when taylor and karlie went to sephora, they obviously called the paps on themselves like watch the video. the paps are waiting for them. they weren't caught out this was a planned pr moment, or a "stunt" as some might call it. why did they do this? well sephora was running a campaign of victoria's secret perfume at the same time.

so Karlie and Taylor's teams were trying to sell them to us. hence the vogue spread and best best friends videos and pap walks and karlie being involved in the tour video for 1989 (which helped promote karlie's youtube channel). they were cross-promoting one another. karlie helped taylor sell an image and records and tour content and taylor helped karlie sell kookies, her own girlboss brand image, and victoria's secret stuff. this is like PR 101 stuff.

I just don't think they were counting on how GAY it would all sometimes seem 😭while most people said "aw cute! taylor and karlie seem like great friends!" others saw all these cute photo-ops and brand commercials and read into it a romance. it didn't hurt that taylor had that sus as hell history with Dianna Agron and Julianne Hough and her music is so damn gay too! and it all accidentally blended together to make a very very very well-promoted lovable ship.

the crazy thing tho? they absolutely could have been hooking up and that's partially what people picked up on. sure maybe they did the best best friends video to promote themselves and sell us shit but maybe those staring contests and compliments contained a little more than just friendly admiration.

there could have been a private romance that was accidentally being promoted in the middle of the capitalistic marketing orgy that public kaylor was. but the public marketing orgy is the reason SO MANY PEOPLE are so into it. there was SO MUCH CONTENT from their pr moments that people couldn't help but get obsessed.

i remain skeptical but open about kaylor but i certainly see the obvious PR situation that it was as well. for all i know they were fucking on the down low in between photo ops and brand plugs!

[thecorruptedlovely]

@itzury-navarro

Thank you for this request! Fun fact: you requested three of my absolute FAVORITE characters from the Arcane and I am SO happy to write about them!! :D

And since they're my favorites, I've decided I'm going to do.... ALL OF THEM! :DDDD

Hope you enjoy!!

Also for Viktor I decided to do a s/o with ADHD since the term neurodivergent covers a LOT of other stuff, and for Jinx I decided to do a S/O who has PTSD since, again, there's so many things listed under mental illness and it would be difficult to include all of the mental illnesses she has (I don't wanna make this TOO long so that's why I picked one mental illness), I hope you don't mind!

Sorry if any of this isn't accurate :(

Different types of headcanons for Arcane characters (plus a short story)

No NSFW

Jinx and Viktor are romantic but Silco is platonic (father and child relationship)

Reader is gender neutral, pronouns used (if any) are they/them

No warnings, but just mentioning of PTSD if that counts

Not proofread, may be mistakes and misunderstandings of the request

(Viktor, Jinx, Silco)

(My husband omfg skcbskcbskcbdjb)

Viktor 📕 with a S/O who has ADHD

He finds it amusing when you have your little bouts of energy and are just rushing all over the place, not in a mean way, but he finds it pretty cute

He always comes to you when he needs help solving something, seeing as your brain works differently to his you always come up with solutions he never would have thought of

Remembers one time you set up an entire domino-like system where if you were too lazy to open the door for someone you could just throw a teddy bear at this target and let the system do its job

Your room is set up similarly with all these different kinds of domino-like systems or projects that you use to help you with daily stuff

Don't wanna get off the couch (Viktor had it specially brought down for when you wanted to rest with him for a bit) to take something to Viktor or Jayce? You've designed a contraption that'll bring it to them for you.

He also loves how you have a set routine for mornings when you wake up, he's the kind of guy who also likes to have a schedule

Whenever he sees you tinkering with a new invention or contraption for your own personal use he can't help but feel inspired by it, sometimes he'll spend some time staring at you thoughtfully, then it's as if a lightbulb went off over his head and he's off to tinker on his own stuff

He claims that seeing you work so intensely and so determined gives him inspiration and motivation to keep working on whateve he's working on at the moment

"What are you working on now, моя любовь? A new contraption to help with your routine? You never cease to amaze me, моя жемчужина. Allow me to help you, we can get it done twice as fast if we are both working on it."

(Jinx is so pretty and you can't tell me otherwise)

Jinx 💣 bonding with her S/O over PTSD

She is completely understanding about it (in her own kooky way)

She definitely has her share of PTSD from that night

If you're up for it she'll ask you to tell her what happened and what your PTSD is based around

She still has trouble opening up to anyone, but just maybe she'll let you in and tell you some of what happened that night

She'll try to distract you with jokes and stuff, mostly she'll act like her normal crazy self, unless it's really bad, then she'll calm down and offer to lay down for a bit with you

If you ever have moments where a loud noise or sudden movement scares you she'll be there to comfort you and get you out of the situation

Whenever she goes to blow something up she'll always make sure that you're a safe distance away and that you have something over your ears just in case

It might seem like she babies you but really she just wants to protect you, she knows what it's like to be struggling with something like this

She will be there with you through thick and thin and she knows you'll always be there for her when things get rough for her too

"Hey, hot stuff, I made a new bomb! Wanna see it?– Hey, trinket, what's wrong? Did a loud sound scare you again? Don't worry, it was prolly just one of those fat rats... You know, I bet it would make great target practice!– joking, joking!.... Kinda–"

(This is my dad everyone)

Fatherly approval from Silco 🚬

After Silco had called you in to his office with no explanation or anything besides just a "Come to my office, I want to speak to you" had you worried. You hoped you hadn't done anything to disappoint him, he had taken you in as a child when your parents were killed in a fire and he had become like a second dad to you.

You slowly opened the door to his office, carefully peeking in, his chair was facing away from you so you announced your presence with a meek cough.

"You called for me, sir?"

He turned around halfway, currently smoking another cigar, you waited patiently as he blew out a puff of smoke.

"Yes, come here please"

You opened the door fully and stepped in, shutting the door behind you as you walked up to his desk and stood there, waiting for whatever he had to say to you.

"Come around here please" he said, placing his cigar down for a moment as he waited for you to walk around his desk to stand in front of him. Once you stepped around and in front of him he gestured for you to sit on his desk, something he never allowed unless it was you or Jinx.

As stepped closer and hopped up on his desk, leaning back some to assume a nonchalant appearance, hoping he wouldn't sense your anxiety, but surely he wasn't angry if he still allowed you to sit on his desk. He sat up straight, looking you in the eyes.

"I wanted to say, I'm proud to have you as one of my acquaintances, I am glad that I decided to take you in that day, you are an incredibly loyal and diligent worker... I've even come to see you as something close to a child of mine."

Your eyes widened at his words... He was proud of you? And he thought of you as his child? Silco was never a very open guy so something like this was incredibly rare to hear from him, he rarely ever said he was proud of anyone and he definitely never opened up like this to others. You were beyond happy to hear these things from him, so much so that your eyes began to overflow with tears of pure joy.

You suddenly hopped off of his desk before throwing yourself into his lap and hugging him tightly, he chuckled quietly as his arms came up to return your tight embrace. As you pulled back and smiled up at him, you swore you could see pride and happiness in his eyes when he looked at you.

"I swear, as long as you are under my protection, no one, and nothing, will ever hurt you. And if they do, they will pay the price for messing with you."

I realize you probably wanted these to be in the form of short stories so I apologize for that and only doing Silco's as a short story, I feel like I completely misunderstood half the request 😞 I hope you're fine with how I did it instead, but I can always redo it if you'd like :)

[kookie-doughs]

Beta Tester

Kozume Kenma X Reader

-YN LN is a popular mangaka

Chapter 16: Stage

Seeing you running towards him made Kenma frown.

"Kenma!" You waved. "Thank you for not leaving yet!"

Ignoring you he continued to walk towards the direction of the stage.

You pouted and crossed your arms. "You know... As sorry as I am for that kiss I really don't regret it."

Jogging up in front of him with a shit eating grin, you positioned yourself in front of him where he'd have no choice but to look at you while you looked at him. His ears were slightly red without a doubt but who were you kidding yours were too.

Kenma cleared his throat, "Good for you then. Now get out of the way so I could get out of here. "

"And honestly I liked that kiss." You continued determined to see him flustered again. "Your lips were soft and I bet my ass you're a great kisser. I rate you 10/10 would do it again."

With a glare he looked at you straight in the eyes, "So do it pussy." Then went ahead before you could see the red settling on his face.

"I- Wh- Excuse me- Wh- Huh? K-Ken- Kenma!!" You squeaked as you chased after him.

"I said what I said."

You finally caught up to him when he was about to climb the stairs towards the stage. Luckily(?) you also have to go up with him.

"Ehh... Where's the flustered Kenma? I wanted to see you all blushy and panicked. You looked so adorable. I don't want hot daddy Dom Kenma. I want cute baby sub Kenma..."

As he was halfway up the stairs your height gap grew and he was way over you. He just looked down on you, leaning closer the gap barely existent he smirked.

"Too bad." Then turned away.

There were a handful of people who saw the scene. Which made you more embarrassed. Holy shit you acted all alpha online only to be dominated by a hermit named Kozume Kenma.

Boy were you happy. You'd happily submit to him.

"Let us all welcome the two people who made the game possible! YN LN and Kozume Kenma!!"

You might be confused why you two were the ones going and why you were introduced like that.

As you are the creator of Puri-Puri you of course are the reason why this game existed.

But Kenma came here as he's the biggest investor, the face of the game and no one else wanted to go. So yeah...

As you two came up the stage you were just wishing the blush from the scene a few moments ago. The cameras flashed and claps were heard.

"Shit the media is here..." You mumbled.

"Your surprised, why?" Kenma gave you an amused and disappointed look. No idea how he managed to do that but he did.

"Shut the fuck up. I just got a feeling the questions won't be about the game thanks to the media."

"So you do think sometimes..."

"You want me to hit you?"

A clearing of throat behind you stopped your argument. It was Akaashi handing you both microphones to be clipped on you [I'm sorry I dont know what they're called] .

"Good luck, don't do and say anything stupid. And remember this is the release of PPM's demo." He reminded and got off the stage.

"Good evening to you all! I hope you've been having a great time!" I started.

"We'd like to thank you again for attending the release of PPM's demo."

"Now of course the game is yet to be played but from the trailer that was shown, I hope you had enjoyed it since the game is going to be much better than the trailer!"

"I'm sure you all must've questions as well. That's why Me and your idi-- dear author will answer."

"You definitely were about to call me idiot." You frowned at him.

He smirked and shrugged. "I have not a slightest idea what you mean."

"You're the worst."

Ignoring you... Again. He motioned at one of the reporters to probably ask their question.

"Ms. LN, as the initial plot of the Puri-Puri Magika is about [REDACTED], and the trailer we saw have quite a large difference from one another only having the universe in similarty. Is it just the universe of the similar one to the manga? "

"Of course the plot would be different. It disappoints me quite a bit that none of you realized how they're connected aside from the universe. Well, I don't really want to spoil you but if you actually read the Manga and saw the trailer," You gave a proud smirk. "Everyone that was a fan of PPM in the team were ecstatic. They were all just-" You mimicked a mind blown. "They were so excited about the game and a those."

"Thank you Ms. LN."

"Next please."

"Mr. Kozume," the next one called. "You were neither a fan of YN, nor PPM, why did you decide to not only beta test the game but sponsor and invest big sum of money on the game."

"We--"

"No wait ! I want to answer some of those questions!" You cut off cackling. "The one about him investing and him beta testing! It's actually an annoying and Hella funny story."

"No I was a--"

"Shut up you'll probably lie."

"Shut up." Kenma now had his ears red. "Don't you--"

"He was the biggest asshole back then!"

"Stop talking."

"He fucking beta tested despite not knowing shit about PPM because it was the biggest game. And he just banwagoned  on it like a bitch he was."

"I did not. I had some clues about you Manga."

"You did not know shit about PPM cut yo bullshit. You didn't even know who the MC was!"

"Shut up."

"That's why he beta tested! Now the reason why he invested is really hilarious!"

"I really hate this story..."

"This was the reason why Kenma became Bae too! We didn't know shit about how to contact Kenma, we only had his email address and his social media. Keep that in mind. "

"So since he didn't know shit about PPM he really couldn't care about the plot and just looked for bugs and shit. He wasn't even aware of the bugs in the plot since he didn't know which what was supposed to be part of the plot and not. This bitch ass decided there wasn't any bugs anymore so we went with that. But then we had to play it and saw a shit ton of bugs."

"I said there were some bugs don't make me seems so stupid."

"You didn't even inform us about the glitch at the time skip part! That could've ruined the entire thing! Anywayz, so we had to code the game again. So we emailed him that there were way too many bugs other than what he told us so the next testing would be later. But the asshole never replied. And since I was the one entasked to guide this bitch ass, I  had to flood his email! And he didn't respond! Not once! It had been DAYS! I send him at least 20 emails everyday! I have up on the 3-4th day and DMed him on Twitter."

"I really hate this part."

"No. No. This is the best part. Do y'all remember that one trending #KodzuGone started by Tenma? It's because, this asshole never responded to our emails so I DMed him all the shit important shit in the emails. Then this bitch fucking blocked me! I fucking rante to Tenma and he canceled Kenma like he deserved to! I was panicking about it since Mr. Suzumiya told me that Kenma could be a potential investor if he wanted. And I needed cash... "

"Do not call me that publicly. You are disgusting."

"He went full sugar daddy on me!" You cackled. "His entire squad had betrayed him! They were canceling him so he just fucking slid into my DMs apologizing about the shit he did and I told him, bitch I'm coming over there and see you play this fucking game or I will not stop this canceling and make it worse. So he was forced to telll me his address and I'm not sure if yall saw the live but it was hot shit. The next day he bought all the copies of PPM at this one store and gave them to me and then he invested shit ton of money on my on going works, bought me a new tablet, paid my Keiji bills, and many other shit. Yall would die to have him as sugar daddy I'm telling you. Ya don't even have to give him sugar for the treats. "

"That was the biggest mistake I made."

"Awwe, but thanks to that we're closer than ever. "

"Exactly my point."

"Thank you for answering Ms. LN."

"I hate you so much." Kenma sighed pinching the bridge of his nose.

"No you don't. Admit it you love me."

"I really don't. Next question please."

"A-Ah, my initial question was actually answered in the previous question. It about your live. Now my question is, Ms LN and Mr. Kozume, is your relationship really a platonic one or a romantic one? "

"Okay, babe," You chuckled. "my man won't even let me breathe the same air he does. Ya think we're dating?"

"Well your right."

"What?"

"Excuse me?"

"Huh?! " You exclaimed a little louder than you thought since the mic made a loud noise.

"The relationship we have is both platonic and romantic. As labels aren't placed we share a romantic relationship." Kenma smirked.

You looked at him and the crowd with a clear eminent blush. "I-I I- Wh-"

Pulling you closer to him and turning around so the crowd won't see you both. He lowered the mic to prevent them from hearing.

"I wanted to see you all blushy and panicked . You look adorable." He whispered to your ear before facing the crowd again who were now going crazy over what Kenma had just confirmed.

"Y-You're an asshole..."

"Yeah, an asshole who..." lowering his mic again he leaned to your ear. "Still has your favorite onsie at his place. You really shouldn't have left it at my place. I'm so tempted to burn it."

"You leave my onsie alone! I will drown your consoles."

"With that threat, you're suddenly stripped of your house visit privileges."

"W-Why would you say we're dating?!"

"I didn't. I just said we both share a romantic and platonic relationship with no labels. I technically didn't lie too."

"Why did you do this?"

"Aside from wanting to see you all flustered? I'm probably drunk." Kenma smiled and turned to the crowd again. "Next question please."

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I'm sorry lately there's been to many words and less pictures it's just that... Idk

Lol I'm sorry this was supposed to be smau but there's been too many words

Ooc Kenma is shit so I made him drunk

-kookie-doughs

Taglist?

@gayer-than-the-gayest-gay @synx-ed @normalisthenewnorm @0majuh0 @leachann @nikanikabitch @almondeupeach @immxnty @mer-majesty @yamayoomi @simpingoveranime-men @lostmarimoismyhubby @mariishat @just-snog-already

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Everybody & the Avengers Team

I've got a new fic rec list for you!

The stories in the "X & the Avengers Team" tags focus on one person's relationship to the Avengers team as a whole. Courtesy of AO3's tag browse and Excel, here's a ranked list of the top 20 most popular pairings:

Tony Stark | 2470 total, 240 OTP

Peter Parker | 2255 total, 85 OTP

Steve Rogers | 602 total, 56 OTP

Loki | 387 total, 26 OTP

Natasha Romanov | 308 total, 35 OTP

Clint Barton | 268 total, 46 OTP

Bruce Banner | 244 total, 15 OTP

Thor | 209 total, 7 OTP

Avengers Team | 174 total, 24 OTP

James "Bucky" Barnes | 156 total, 7 OTP

Wanda Maximoff | 143 total, 4 OTP

Phil Coulson | 105 total, 9 OTP

Darcy Lewis | 91 total, 6 OTP

Matt Murdock | 60 total, 8 OTP

Sam Wilson | 53 total, 5 OTP

Nick Fury | 41 total, 5 OTP

Harry Potter | 40 total, 0 OTP

Pepper Potts | 31 total, 1 OTP

Vision | 29 total, 2 OTP

Stiles Stilinski | 25 total, 0 OTP

In chart form, if you like charts:

Notes:

The numbers after the names are the number of stories tagged with that ship. OTP means the number of stories where that is the only relationship tagged on the story. Numbers are accurate as of July 2021.

Story Recommendations

For your reading pleasure, included below is at least one fic rec for each pairing except the crossovers from non-Marvel fandoms (apologies to Mr. Potter & Mr. Stilinski). Most are gen fic, and even in the ones with a romantic pairing, romance is not the focus.

Tony Stark

As Subtle As Cognitive Recalibration by petroltogo (Teen, 8949) tumblr: @tonystarktogo

Standing inside his penthouse, listening to Rogers, Barton and Banner explain to Fury how they just happened to stumble over the Tesseract on a routine security check of Stark Tower’s roof and wouldn’t you know, they’ve managed to fight off the looming alien invasion before it could really start and secure the missing overpowered nightlight is one of the most surreal situations Tony has ever had the displeasure of experiencing.

Peter Parker

the worst field trip ever by shrill_fangirl_screaming (Teen, 3420) tumblr: @i-am-having-an-emotion

"We're on a field trip," Peter said. "To here. And Tony decided to be our tour guide and absolutely embarrass me, so can you please help get him under control?"

Which is how Peter Parker, architect of his own destruction, ended up with not one but two superhero pseudo-dads being annoying on his school field trip.

Steve Rogers

Do You Remember Being Happy? ('Cause I Sure Don't) by GalaxyThreads (Teen, 11022) tumblr: @galaxythreads

That seems about right. He doesn't know how he knows that, though. He does have vague memories of an annoyed fondness at finding peanut butter in some sort of jam. Thor's doing, because he doesn't see the point of using two knives when one works just as fine. He knows that. How does he know that? He knows all those little details, though, almost innately. How can he know these strangers so deeply?

Everyone else below the cut!

Loki

Proprietary by TheThirdMarauder (Teen, 7639)

No, Loki simply wants the Avengers conquered. The details of whom, how, and when matter not. Unless, of course, said details interfere with Loki's plans. Then, well, then none can fault him for protecting his own interests.

Loki has always been exceptionally good at lying to himself.

Natasha Romanov

What Girls Are Made Of by enigma731 (Teen, 4613) tumblr: @enigma731

She rolls her eyes but does as he’s indicated, using his shoulders to leverage herself up onto his back, her arms around his neck and her legs hugging his waist.

“You know,” he says blithely, “this isn’t really what I tend to picture when I think of a hot girl riding me.”

Natasha groans, deciding that if his sense of humor gets them arrested, she’ll kill him herself. “Just go.”

Clint Barton

Dear Clint Barton (circa age 7) by pollyrepeat (Teen, 4221)

With a normal person, this might count as blackmail material, but a) this is a case of mutually assured destruction if ever there was one, and b) Fury is immune to embarrassment. Not just in the regular, Tony Stark way, either, oh no. Things that could possibly end up being embarrassing to Fury get somehow warped and changed until they go from mortifying all the way over into useful and/or good for his image. It’s like a superpower.

Carrying Clint’s small child self around on his shoulders more than once has probably already hit the interagency rumour mill as an example of Fury’s innate awesomeness: good with rocket launchers and small children.

Also available as a podfic!

Bruce Banner

They're Not Wrong by Trumpeteer34 (Teen, 10163)

As Tony began to pace around the hole in the road to keep himself from shooting repulsors at the nearby buildings in a fit of rage, Thor began to study the nearby area. There was no sign of either the Hulk or Bruce Banner beyond the crater. The surrounding area, aside from the rubble of the fight, held no clue as to their friend’s location.

“Guys, he’s gone,” Tony growled into the communicator on their private line, drawing Thor out of his darkening thoughts. “Someone tranqed him and took him. He’s gone.”

Honorary mention goes to the Responsible Science series by @letteredlettered - the stories don’t have the "Avengers Team & Bruce Banner" tag, but they could, and they are amazing. The best Bruce Banner writing I've ever come across.

Thor

Fortunately, I Am Mighty by onward_came_the_meteors (General, 3062)

Steve was the first one to speak. “Are you okay?”

Thor nodded. Which was a bad idea, as it turned out, because now there were little gray lights flashing in front of his eyes. “I’m fine.” Absolutely everyone narrowed their eyes, and he added, “But, uh. Could we possibly not get back in the car just yet?”

Avengers Team

Civil Wasn't by onward_came_the_meteors (General, 7123)

"We're having an ideological conflict here," Tony stated with disbelief. "Are you telling me you still want to go out to dinner?"

"It's a standing engagement, Tony," Rhodey reminded him.

"Not you too—"

"We already had to reschedule from Friday when Natasha was..." Rhodey frowned. "What were you doing?"

The question was directed toward Natasha, who shrugged and said, "Spy stuff."

James "Bucky" Barnes

You Know How I Feel, aka, The Adventures of Bucky and Muffy the Dinosaur by ifeelbetter (Not Rated, 4511) tumblr: @ifeelbetterer

“As you may have heard, Bucky Barnes, a.k.a. The Winter Soldier, recently rescued a tiny part-robot dinosaur during the Avengers’ battle with Dr. Doom in Antarctica,” the other newscaster explained. “Pictures of Barnes and the dinosaur were posted on twitter by fellow Avenger, Clint Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye, and immediately made Barnes’s new pet America’s sweetheart.”

“Her name’s Muffy,” said Steve."

Wanda Maximoff

and the woman was young again by Mira_Jade (General, 3669)

Tony Stark called them the Cap's Kooky Quintet, and sometimes the term amused her – causing her to lift a sardonic brow where someday a smile would truly smile. She enjoyed the presence of comrades – true comrades – and she enjoyed the way their minds wove and bound together about each other to fluctuate against her senses as one. There was something soothing about being in their midst, and even when their loud and brash ways – their painful Americaness - rubbed her raw and drained on her, it was ever the knitting of their minds that soothed those moments over, and made them inconsequential.

Phil Coulson

Coulson's First Day of School by storiesfortravellers (Teen, 3055)

Coulson looked up at him. “I like drawing pictures with Mr. Rogers. I like having tea parties with Ms. Potts. I like it when Dr. Banner reads me books, and I like it when Natasha teaches me things. And I like when you play with me. You do really good voices when we play action figures. And you’re the only one who lets me do stuff like jump off the high diving board at the pool or eat three cupcakes or play tackle with kids at the park.”

Clint didn’t realize that. He was pretty sure that meant that he was doing something wrong.

Darcy Lewis

Beginner Yoga for Dummies (Darcys) and Sad Hobos by chailover (Teen, 3434)

Darcy had a theory: crazy attracted crazy, working kind of like gravity. It was pretty much her explanation for her life after Thor. And if she had thought the type of crazy Thor attracted was bad, be it Loki or the Warrior Three and Sif, or the dark elves and the Convergence, it was still nothing against what the Avengers manage en masse.

Matt Murdock

Double Blind by smilebackwards (Teen, 2381) tumblr: @smilebackwards

Stark snaps his fingers. “You can’t see half of my inventions. This explains so much about you and why you’ve never been properly impressed by me.”

“Does it?” Matt says, ambiguously.

Sam Wilson

Bystander by scribblemetimbers (Teen, 52029)

“I just want you to know,” Sam says loudly, cautiously raising his hands, “That I’m very poor and very sleep-deprived and literally the only thing you can kill me for right now are my notes.” He pauses. Wait. On second thought: “Please don’t steal my notes.”

“I’m not—I’m not a mugger,” Not Mugger rasps out, and for all that he looks about to keel over and die, the man actually manages to sound offended.

Nick Fury

Bedtime Story by dixiehellcat (Teen, 2532) tumblr: @deehellcat

Fury snorted. “I have to check in with the duty officer. I’ll be back in, let’s say twenty minutes. I expect all of you to have whatever your pre-bedtime routines are completed, and be in here pajama’ed and ready to be read to.”

He tapped the book under his arm, then left with the usual dramatic swish of his long coat. Bruce scratched his head. “Did…he just say be ready to be read to?”

Pepper Potts

Pepper and the Avengers (Which She Knows Nothing About) by rebelmeg (General, 6696) tumblr: @rebelmeg

The Avengers, that mismatched group of hurt and heroism, was one of the most important things in Tony Stark’s life. So, naturally, Pepper had made them an important part of her life too.

Vision

039. Intoxicated by aimmyarrowshigh (Teen, 100) tumblr: @aimmyarrowshigh

It might be nice to fit in, just this once. To lose a bit of composure.

Vision floated over to the refrigerator and, with some timidity, pulled off a magnet. He stuck it to his forehead.

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When my love blooms

BTS 8th member

Sunny’s masterlist

“Sunny's expeciences during When Our Love Blooms”

a/n: JUST FYI, Jinyoung plays a dude named Jaehyun and Sunny plays the character named Jisoo.  Your opinion is very important for me, send feedback and requests anytime 💜 Also, don’t be shy and interact a little, ask box is always open

DAY 1

Looking at herself in the mirror, Sunny fixed her now brown hair and snapped a quick picture. Sending it to the BTS group chat with an “I should have bangs more often :p” she quickly locked her phone and put it away, leaving the small changing trailer the stylists had led her to.

“Sunny, let’s go this way so you can do a table reading before we start shooting” One of the producers called her to one big room where most of the staff were already seated in a big table.

Looking for her name tag, she saw her empty spot next to Got7’s Jinyoung, who was already seated playing on his phone. The few times Sunny had met him before, they never really interacted that much, since she usually stuck to talking to Bambam because they’ve known each other since trainees. Bowing respectfully, she sat down next to him trying not to stay too close.

“Excited to start shooting?” Jinyoung tried to make the atmosphere less awkward, turning towards her as he took a sip of his coffee.

“Yes, a little nervous as well” Sunny nodded, suddenly trying to remember all of the acting classes she had taken the week prior.

“You’ll be fine, table readings are a great way to get used to the storyline and build confidence in your character” he smiled sweetly at her.

Smiling a thanks to him, she paid attention as the director and producers started giving out tips to the actors and fully explaining the storyline to every little detail. “It’s important all of you get in sync with the ages you’ll be interpreting” was a sentence heavily repeated, since the story would be set in two different times.

After about two hours, when the meeting ended, the two idols stood up and grabbed their stuff from the table. “Your character is really in love with mine” Jinyoung nudged her with his elbow smirking.

“He’ll be just as whipped for her in less than two episodes” Rolling her eyes, Sunny joked back and started walking side by side. 

Looking around to see if anyone was paying attention, she decided to share one of her worries with him. “I know this might seem out of nowhere, but I’m dating Sehun from EXO. And by what they said a few minutes ago there will be a lot of kissing involved. Do you think I should tell him about it?” 

With wide eyes at the sudden confession, Jinyoung assessed the situation before speaking “Does he know you’re acting and I’m the love interest?” After Sunny confirmed he shrug his shoulder, face back to its relaxed state “Then it’s implied. Mentioning it to him would only make it look like it’s a bigger deal than it actually is”

Still a bit unsure about it, Sunny tried to assure herself it would be fine, Sehun had never been the jealous type and he looked very excited when she told him about the project. Sensing her uncertainty, Jinyoung placed a hand on her shoulder.

“Look, seventy percent of the shots will be manipulating camera angles and lighting, we’ll just need to stand very close to each other” She rose an eyebrow at the last part and he sighed “I swear everything will be strictly platonic, just try to look like you’re in love with me when the cameras are rolling” With a breathy laugh, Sunny calmed down a little.

DAY4

Stepping out of the fake bedroom, the girl grabbed a tissue handed by a staff member and started to dry a few tears. Waiting for the director to tell her what to do next, she looked around and found a very excited boy jumping and waving her way. 

“Okay everyone, that’s enough for today” The middle-aged man shouted and Sunny took off towards J-Hope. 

Engulfing her in a hug, he patted the top of her head and smiled brightly “I missed you so much. You’ve been working a lot lately, we barely see each other on the dorms since you always leave way too early and come home very late”

“It’ll only be for a couple of weeks. Here let’s go to catering, I haven’t eaten yet” Sunny grabbed his arm and took him to a bunch of trailers parked. 

After she got her lunch, they sat down in a table and she started eating with him stealing a couple of bites here and there. “Jungkook said he will pay you a visit as well, he’s trying to set a date with Yugyeom so they can come together”

“He’s really tight with his 97 friends huh? I wonder if he would come at all if Jinyoung wasn’t in this” Sunny rolled her eyes remembering the many times she had to repeat what she had said because Jungkook was too absorbed in his group chat to pay attention.

“Let’s just be happy he’s making friends” Hobi smiled and Sunny laughed “I’m being serious, you were very quick to befriend other idols and do your thing, I thought Kookie would never leave our side” 

“But he did talk to other people” Sunny tried to reason with him.

“Yeah, only when V or Jimin was around, the boy took introverted to another level” he looked around and reverted his gaze to her. “And you, have you made more friends here?”

“I talk with a few actors and the staff are nice I guess” Sunny shrug her shoulders “You just said I made friends easily, why so worried out of nowhere?”

“Because I know you” Hobi smiled gently at her “You probably spend most of your day worrying about doing a good job and studying the script. Not trying to break this to you, but I don’t think you’ll ever get the chance to do this again, do you really  want to let the experience pass instead of making connections and having the time of your life?”

Sighing, Sunny placed her arms on the table and looked around as well “It’s just, people here are always working. I know that seems like heaven for me, but it gets tiring only talking about techniques and obsessing over the storyline. Also, I don’t think other people are interested in talking with an idol. I’m like a choir kid who wanted to try out the drama club”

J Hope laughed at her comparison “I’m glad you’re not leaving Bangtan to become an actress then” He smirked and she rolled her eyes with a small smile “How about the other actors? I guess Jinyoung’s on the same boat as you”

“I guess so. We talk in between shots sometimes, he’s probably the closest I have to a friend” as she said that the boy raised his arms in victory.

DAY6 (yes, it was on purpose)

“Okay, cut” The director yelled and Jinyoung retreated his lips from the corner of Sunny’s mouth “Please don’t leave the phonebooth, I’m going to check if we need to do that once again”

With the amount of space restricted, Sunny rested her back on the glass and the Got7 member tried to back away as much as possible, but it wasn’t enough to be a respectable space. 

“I’m sorry if this is awkward,”  Jinyoung said looking everywhere but at her. Not that Sunny knew because she was literally doing the same. “I’d open the door, but I’m sure he’d yell at me for doing so”

The girl didn’t have time to respond back, as someone yelled they were done for the day. Finally breathing properly, she stepped out of the small place and saw Yugyeom and Jungkook on the back watching the staff work. 

Looking at Sunny with wide eyes, her groupmate walked very fast towards her and dragged her somewhere more secluded. “Do you know how intimate that looked?” he said like he was scared making the girl laugh.

“Well, it is a romantic drama. I’m sure it was supposed to look like that” she said shrugging her shoulders and leaving to get out of her costume.

Grabbing her arm again, Jungkook prevented her from moving “Still, it’s awkward. Aren’t you uncomfortable with it? We can talk to your manager and get them to change the script or something”

“Are you crazy?” Sunny put her hands on his shoulders and shook him a little, getting him out of his shock “They signed me to play their character, I’m sure they would straight up fire me if I did anything even remotely close to changing the scenes”

“Well… I-I’m uncomfortable with it” He stuttered a bit but ended up crossing his arms and fixing his posture as if he was some kind of authority, all Sunny did was raise an eyebrow at him “Sehun Hyung won’t like this either. Plus you’re like a child, isn’t this like, illegal?”

“I’m literally a year younger than you” she reminded him,

“Well, it’s legal then” He nodded “But, Sehun? Does he know this?”

“Of course, I’m not going to lie to him about where I spend most of my day”

“I’m not talking about that” it was Jungkook’s turn to raise an eyebrow, making Sunny sigh.

“I haven’t told him about the kisses, if that’s even what they are, but he does know I have a love interest” She linked arms with him and started walking towards a trailer, she desperately wanted to get out of those clothes and go home “I’m scared if I talk too much about it it’s going to seem like I care too much about what’s going on”

“But if you don’t it might seem like you’re trying to hide something” Jungkook pointed out being led by her “If it were me I’d want to know. I would probably become petty though”

“Yeah, you would” Sunny smiled at his personality.

“What do you mean by those not being kisses by the way?”

“Oh. Fake kisses are so boring, like, lips aren’t even fully touching. Plus, the real feeling of-”

“That’s enough” He cut her off flustered “ I already know that I don’t know why I needed for you to say it. Please forget I even asked”

DAY 7

“So, that’s what has been going on” Sunny said to her phone. Pacing from one side to the other on the empty makeup trailer.

“Okay” She heard Sehun’s muffled laugh on the other side “I already know you would be doing stuff like that. It does worry me a little that something made you feel like you had to tell me this now”

“I had talked with Jinyoung about this and he told me it wasn’t a big deal, but Jungkook came yesterday and said it would be better if you were aware”

“Oh, so you asked your fake boyfriend what to do about your real boyfriend?” Sunny could feel him smirking through the phone and unconsciously rolled her eyes.

“This really isn’t going to become a problem right?” She stopped pacing and faced her brunette figure in the mirror.

“Trust me it isn’t. You’re going to give me double the kisses to make up though” Sunny smiled at his silliness “I have to go right now. I love you”

“I love you too” she blew a kiss and he hung up.

Leaving the trailer, she saw Jinyoung also walking towards the set she was going to. “Hey, settled everything with the boyfriend?” 

“Yeah, and he said he already expected it” Sunny started walking with him, the space between them enough to fit another person.

“I told you, you should have trusted Sunbae” Jinyoung smiled at her, using his nickname from the drama, and Sunny rolled her eyes once again.

“Keep talking like that, and I’ll have to start calling you Jaehyun” she spoke with a mischievous grin and it was his turn to roll his eyes.

“Aah Jisoo, your friendship means the world to me”

2 Months later

Sunny was laying on her bed while scrolling through social media and checking out people’s reviews on the latest episode when her notification bar rolled down showing a new message from Sehun 

“Come to my place, we need to talk”

(please don’t kill me, pt 2 will be coming soon)

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Hi, thank you for asking!

Top 5 underrated TV shows

Idk what really qualifies as underrated, but I’ll try my best.

1. Legends of Tomorrow

Like, outside of the cult following, people don’t give it credit for being one of the most creative and batshit crazy shows on TV. I think what really gets missed in the conversation about Legends, even when the show is brought up, is that it’s not just a weird, kooky show. I genuinely believe LoT is doing something that no other show on TV is doing rn. Like it may be silly, and not take itself too seriously, but it’s actually super creative, it tries new things, it takes risks that shows that take themselves more seriously don’t have the luxury of taking. It’s out there doing something genuinely different from the regular serialized drama format that’s overtaking television, and that’s unique and important and we should appreciate it more.  

2. Every show for or about women that’s ever been referred to as a “guilty pleasure” by men, including but not limited to: BtVS, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin, Sex and the City (I haven’t even seen it, but I know that it changed television as we know it, and men still dismiss it as meaningless fluff), Gilmore Girls, and too many other shows to list here. All of them are underrated by assholes who think they’re too good for girl things.

3. Blackadder

Y’know, the concept of something being underrated is super weird, because like the question becomes: underrated by who? I mean, if you’re in the know about British comedies or whatever, then of course you know that Blackadder is one of the funniest and most innovative shows ever. But with everyone else I’ve talked to in real life, I’ve had to explain that Mr. Bean and Dr. House dress up in period costumes, and hang out with different important historical figures in British history, and it’s really funny and great (except for maybe the first season).  

4. Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23

And then on the other hand, I’m pretty sure a lot of people on Tumblr know what this show is, and know it’s hilarious, but I would still probably consider it underrated and pretty unknown outside of certain circles.

5. Sense8

Again, I’m not sure it’s underrated on Tumblr but more people need to see it, so I’m counting it. I like Sense8 for the same reason I like Legends: it took risks, and did things other shows weren’t doing, albeit on a much larger and more unruly budget, which is probably why it got cancelled. But it really was a great, if short lived show, and I wish it had gone on for longer.

Top 5 “deserved better” characters

1. Kendra Young

Yeah, so I think there are two reasons that Kendra’s death makes me so angry. The first being just how much potential was wasted with her death. Yeah, they made her do a goofy accent, but she was still a really interesting character. Her worldview was completely entrenched in that of the Council. She was raised by them, and had never rebelled like Giles had. She would have made an amazing contrast to Buffy and the gang, but I also think there’s a really great story there about her coming to terms with just how exploited by those assholes she had been. Also, her dynamic with Buffy was already fascinating, and I think they had really good chemistry (I ship it).

The other reason her death makes me so angry is that she is the most obvious example of the horrendous treatment of people of color on BtVS. It really is unacceptable how white that show is, and once the writers finally did create an interesting and powerful (if admittedly pretty stereotypical) woman of color, they killed her off after three episodes. Kendra deserved better just like every other non-white character on BtVS deserved better.

2. Meg Manning and Paker Lee

(Yeah, I’m cheating, it’s a tie.) So one of the main issues that I have with Veronica Mars is that there just aren’t that many women on the show. With the exception of Veronica herself, most of the main characters are men, and most of Veronica’s important relationships, be they romantic, familial, or platonic, are with men.

The female characters we do have either have very little screentime, in spite of their considerable awesomeness (Mac and Jackie). Or, in the case of Meg and Parker, are used and disposed of according to the needs of the plot, often to create drama in Veronica’s love life. Meg surviving the bus crash, only to be killed off once she’d given birth, basically because she was no longer relevant to the Duncan/Veronica story is super icky and gross. And Parker getting dismissed as nothing more than road bump in LoVe’s story by both the show and the fandom drives me a little crazy, especially considering how she was introduced to the show.

Also, while we’re at it, every single ‘feminist’ character in season 3 deserved better from Rob Thomas.

3. Tara Maclay

She deserved to live, and we the viewers deserved better than Bury Your Gays.

4. Martha Jones

I mean, Martha Jones deserved better from the fandom more than anything else. And I’m adding her to the list because I’m one of the many people who owes Martha and Freema Agyeman an apology. I was like 12 when I watched Doctor Who for the first time, and I totally bought into the racist sexist bullshit (she’s boring, why is she in love with the Doctor, etc.). To be fair, I also bought into a lot of sexist bullshit when it came to Rose, so I hated her too, but obviously Martha got the shorter end of the stick, because of racism, and she deserved so, so much better.

5. Donna Noble

Fuck the amnesia bullshit and erasing her character development. Why did they have to do this to her? What possible purpose did it serve? Why not just give her a reason to leave and go home like every other companion? Wtf was the point? Was it just so that the doctor would have manpain about it?

Nevermind, I think I just answered my own question.

Top 5 brotps

Ok, not including any relationships I view as purely familial (Dawn and Buffy, Giles and Buffy, Tara and Dawn, Holt and anybody, etc.). Friendships only.

1. Buffy and Willow

Buffy and Willow love each other so much, and they hurt each other a lot too. This relationship isn’t simple and sweet, it starts out that way, but it becomes difficult, and they both do things to one another that I don’t think either one of them ever fully forgives the other for. But even still, at their worst, they love each other so deeply and so completely. This relationship is at the core of the show, I think. It’s arguably the first relationship the show establishes, and the one it spends most time on. The ups and downs are painful, but they feel real (even when they involve things like bringing someone back from the dead without their consent or whatever). And through it all, they never stop loving each other. As flawed as it may be, I think it’s also one of the most complex, interesting, and important relationships between two women ever on television. And that’s worth celebrating.

2. Jane and Petra

So I’ve been on a bit of a Jane the Virgin kick lately, and I’ll be honest, I can’t decide if this is a brotp or an otp. But I love Petramos too, so let’s go with brotp.

In any case, these two were pretty much my endgame for the show. I really didn’t care who Jane ended up with (unless it was Petra, but I knew that wasn’t going to happen), and I got sick of her love triangle real quick (to be fair, I just really can’t stand love triangles, which is why I didn’t give the show a shot for a long time). As for Petra, I just really wanted her to have a healthy relationship with someone, and Jane seemed to be the only person who seemed interested in having a healthy relationship with her.

Plus their dynamic is just amazing and hilarious. My favorite scenes in the show are always when they’re on screen together. The way they grudgingly grow to care about and love each other is genuinely sweet and well developed. And I love how even when they do become friends, their basic moral divide never changes. They still disagree very strongly about certain things, but they love each other regardless. And btw, the scene where they say “I love you” to each other for the first time might be my favorite “I love you” scene ever, platonic or otherwise.

I just love them so much.

3. Gurl Group (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)

This is another show about romance where I’m far more invested in the female friendship than I am in any of the romances, but to be fair, I think CxG kind of wants you to do that anyway.

Regardless, I love everyone in this Gurl Group, individually and together. And their individual relationships are already fascinating. Like, Rebecca and Valencia’s frienship is pure enemies to lovers friends bliss and I love it. Rebecca and Paula’s relationship is the heart of the show, and like Buffy and Willow, this relationship is often difficult and complicated, but the love is always there. And we never had enough scenes of Heather and Valencia interacting. Every scene where they were together was pure comedic gold. And the group together as a whole was just so powerful and amazing to behold.

4. Amy and Rosa

They do not have enough scenes together. This relationship deserves the same amount of care and development as Jake and Charles get. Melissa and Stephanie have great chemistry. And like, their characters are so different, so the contrast is always so funny. But they also love each other, and support each other, and it’s so much fun to watch. I need 10000% more Amy/Rosa content.

5. Buffy and Veronica

This one’s probably also cheating because it’s a crossover and all, but I’m just kind of obsessed with the idea of them meeting, sparks flying, enemies to lovers friends, the works. They would just have such a fantastic dynamic. Like, think of all the verbal sparring that we would be blessed with. Think of all the drama and angst of them coming to understand and respect each other. If there is one crossover that I would will into existence if I could, it would definitely be this one.

[btsmutimagines]

Play Pretend

*I’m back... kind of... maybe?*

Requested by @penguinkyung

Word Count: 5.5k

who the fuck allowed him to be hot while I was gone I need answers

You opened your fridge, looking for your water pitcher and pouring a glass for yourself. The cold water refreshed your dry throat and you filled another glass before placing the pitcher back. 

"You know it's rude to just enter people's homes, Kookie."

"How did you know it was me?" You shut the door, revealing your best friend, Jungkook's face. He's been clinging to you since you were two were in elementary school. He always had trouble building sandcastles and you always helped him out. He would always say that once he found out the magic you used to build the sandcastles, he would build them on his own. You guessed he never figured out that he was forgetting to add water.

"You're wearing those beat-up jeans in the middle of winter like an idiot, who else would it be?"

"It's fashion, Y/N, fashion. I know it's hard for you to fathom, I mean."

"I need to change the locks one of these days."

"I'll just knock on your door until you open up."

"You're so annoying." He smiled, grabbing your hand holding your glass to make you pour a sip in his mouth.

"Get your own glass, lazy."

"Why? You had a perfect glass in your hand." You rolled your eyes, walking past him and sitting on the couch. Jungkook sat next to you, grabbing the cushion to his left into his chest. 

"I really don't know what I was thinking when I gave you a spare key."

"I do. 'Wow, my awesome best friend can now stop by and hang out with my dull self!'"

"My awesome best friend? Who, Jimin?"

"When did you and Jimin get friendly? Has he been here too?"

"Why? Does that not make you feel special anymore or something?"

"No, what makes you say that?"  

"Aww, Kookie, don't worry you were always normal to me."

"You're worse at providing comfort than this cushion."

"Come on, Kook, you know you're always going to be special to me." He turned his head away from you, hiding the large smile that followed hearing you say that. You took a swig of water, looking at the tv and Jungkook fumbling with your cushion. He would occasionally voice over some of the characters, you joined him and the two of you chuckled to yourselves.

"Do you still have that dude’s Netflix password?”

"Yeah, why?”

“I need to catch up on Yu-gi-oh.”

“Seriously, this is the third time this month. You know he might catch on that I still have his password with your weird anime choices.”

“Y/N, you know how legendary Yu-gi-oh is? How it paved the way for card games- “

“Didn’t you say the same thing about Pokemon?”

“Yeah.”

“And Bleach?”

“Yes.”

“And Soul Eater?”

“I’m standing by my words, Y/N.”

“If I get kicked out this account, you’re paying for a new one.”

“Don’t be such a worrywart, that will never happen.” So, he said.

You gave in, Jungkook binging the show while you went to bed. He would occasionally sing along to the openings, his melodic voice oddly soothing despite the lyrics.

He was asleep on your couch, clinging to a cushion and his feet sticking out. You noticed him shivering, making you rush to your linen closet to cover him with a blanket.

“You’re something else, Kook.”

You turned off the tv before walking into the kitchen to grab a snack. Your warm bed welcomed you with open arms as you slipped under the covers, enjoying your snack before falling asleep again.

“So, um. I got good news and bad news.”

You dropped your bag on the ground, seeing Jungkook sitting on your couch. It was after work, you really wanted to soak in your lavender bath salts and relax with a glass of wine.

“Is the good news that you’ll start calling when you come over? Or that you’re giving a Netflix subscription for a year? Or-”

“No, but something even better than that.”

“What is it?”

“I scored a hot date with this girl-”

“How is that good news?”

“I said I had good news, I didn’t say it was good news for you, sweetheart.”

“So, you came to brag about your love life?”

“A little bit I need your help.”

“Me? What’s in it for me?”

“Aren’t we best friends? Don’t best friends do stuff for each other because they care about each other?”

“Jungkook, you.” You couldn’t finish your sentence, looking at the shit eating grin on his face. This kid has his way with words, you had to admit.

“I need to practice the perfect date and who’s more opinionated than you, Y/N?”

“I don’t know whether to be offended or pleased.”

“Look, I only know places that just lead to me getting some, but this girl is different, I want it to be special and shit. She deserves a nice date, not some hump and dump type of date.”

“If I can get past the way you just said that, it’s kind of sounds romantic? And I thought the most romantic thing you would ever do was offer a girl a drink after sleeping with her.”

“It’s called aftercare, Y/N. How do you think I keep them coming back besides for the mind-blowing-?”

“I don’t think you can last an hour without mentioning your dick. Let alone a whole date with a girl.” You went into your room, wanting to change out of your work clothes and shutting the door,

“Wait, Y/N.” Jungkook was stopped by your door, you sighing as you slipped off your socks. You changed, putting your work clothes away from opening the door to Jungkook standing in front of you.

“Look, I’m serious. Can you teach me how to properly date?”

“Are you going to pay for everything?”

“Um, yeah, I guess.”

���Are you sure you can behave?”

“I promise, just say yes.” It was odd seeing Jungkook so serious and desperate about something of this subject, Jungkook was more into hookups, video games and anime. A normal young man, you could say but he’s never been that serious about a girl like this. You’ve seen him date a girl for a few months at a time but rebound quickly. Once, he broke up with a girl to only be seen with another girl a few hours later.

“I’ll help you. When is the little date you planned?”

“Uh, next Saturday.”

“A week, huh? When do we start?”

“Is this a job interview? I’ll just call you.”

“Not every girl likes spontaneity, Kook.”

“Get used to it.” You rolled your eyes, it hasn’t even been five minutes and you’re already regretting agreeing to go on pretend dates with someone as infuriating and annoying as Jungkook.

“Jungkook, what was the bad news?”

“Thought you would forget about that.”

“I’m not simpleminded like you.”

“I almost don’t want to tell you.”

“Jungkook.”

“Fine, it was that you would have no choice but agree to my proposition.”

“That’s bad news?”

“Yeah, you’re stuck with me now, sweetheart.”

“Oh, great.”

“Oh, and the guy kicked us out of the Netflix account.”

You sulked, sitting in Jungkook’s car and he sighed as he shut off the car.

“I said I was sorry, didn’t I?”

“I didn’t even get to finish Black Mirror, I was this close to finishing it too.”

“Isn’t that the show where some dude has to fuck a pig? Didn’t know you were into those kinds of things, Y/N.”

“Why did I agree to this?”

“Come on, stop sulking and let’s start this dating stuff.”

“How romantic.” You got out of the car, walking next to Jungkook as you entered the building. Jungkook stuck his arm out, you looked at him confused before he looked at you annoyed.

“Your coat, stupid.” You tossed your coat over his head before walking over to the security guard checking IDs. Jungkook joined you as you approached the front desk, the receptionist looking at the two of you.

“Brought your girlfriend this time, I see.”

“Yeah.” He’s been here before?

“I hope you two enjoy.” Jungkook grabbed your wrist, pulling into the back room and you followed him.

“Jungkook, what is this place?”

“Take a look for yourself.” You two entered what seemed to be an arcade, multiple games filled the large room with a bar to your left. There were a few people in there already, but it wasn’t intimidating.

“Was this an excuse to just play games without having to go to your house?”

“I thought dates were supposed to be fun, not boring like eating at a restaurant.”

“Having a nice dinner is not boring.”

“Whatever, you talk too much, come on.” Jungkook took your wrist again, dragging you to what looked at Mario Kart, a mischievous smirk creeping on your face. You’re going to cream him at this.

“You’re right, Jungkook. This is going to be fun.”

“I know that look in your eyes, don’t cry on my shoulder too much when I beat you too much.”

“Those are big words, Kookie. Hope they taste good when you have to eat them.” Two seats opened next to each other, you and Jungkook quickly sitting down and you two picked a track.

You lucked out with the items you got, hearing Jungkook curse under his breath and you smiled devilishly.

“Good luck, Kookie, I think you’ll need it.”

You easily beat him in a landslide, Jungkook wanting a rematch only face the same result of you winning over him every time. A crowd began to form around the two of you as Jungkook cursed after losing his eleventh race to you.

“I swear to god, are you cheating or something?”

“Jungkook, just admit you’re not on my level.”

“Never, air hockey now.”

“You’re on.” He raced you to the air hockey table and inserted some coins and the table lit up.

Jungkook was a lot better at air hockey than you played him last, then he was average at the game. You two were on your last lives, both of you eager to beat the other. You had the puck, trying to knock it into his goal and he blocked it.

“You got to do better than that.”

“The game isn’t over yet.”

“Give up and it will be.” He tried to distract you, but you blocked his shot. You thought about the best way to win this game, knowing that a crazy trick isn’t enough to beat Jungkook’s reflexes and a direct shot would be a waste. Maybe speed is something that he can’t beat.

You angled your shot, appearing to try a direct shot and Jungkook scoffed.

“You know better than that, sweetheart.”

“Then you don’t know me well enough, Kookie.” You hit the puck as hard as you could, hoping the speed would be enough to get past Jungkook and you were right. Kind of.

Instead of the puck entering his goal, it found its home in Jungkook’s crotch. Or in his words:

“My fucking dick, shit.”

“Jungkook, there are kids around.”

“I won’t be able to have any kids around with your psycho trick shots.” You walked over to him, part of you wanted to laugh at his dramatics and another part slightly worried that you hurt him that bad with a rubber puck.

“It’s not that bad, is it?”

“No, but this makes it better.” He plucked the puck off the ground and took a direct shot into your goal, winning the game.

“You cheated!”

“You left your side, I didn’t do anything.”

“Faking that you got hit in the dick isn’t anything?”

“But you did hit me in the dick, I only over exaggerated the damage, sweetheart.”

“Best 2 out of 3 and looks like it’s my turn to pick what’s up next.”

“Give me your worst.” You looked around the room, seeing anything that you would have a clear advantage over Jungkook in before you spotted it.

“Say, Kookie, how about a game of basketball?”

“Bring it.”

You took off your seatbelt, Jungkook still sulking after he turned off his car.

“Jungkook, wasn’t that fun?”

“No.”

“Gosh, you’re such a baby, it’s hard to believe that you’re 22 years old.”

“Even that little girl next to you got more than me.”

“It was just a game, Kook.”

“I still want a rematch.”

“Why did I believe you when you said you would behave? This fake date is going sour.”

“I guess the arcade isn’t romantic, huh.”

“It could be but you’re too competitive for your own good.”

“What can I say, I’m a master at all trades.”

“Pretty sure that’s not the saying.”

“Well, I’m good at everything.”

“Would it kill you to not boast?”

“Maybe.”

“Goodbye, Jungkook.”

“Wait.” He grabbed your hand, the sensation making you feel weird. Was his hand always this large and warm?

“What?”

“Pack a swimsuit.”

“Why-”

“Just do it.” He let go of your hand, you pull your arm back to your side and Jungkook shutting your door from the inside. He drove off, leaving you on the sidewalk and you huffed.

What a bossy brat.

You were in the middle of packing a bag, looking for some snacks when you heard your door crack open.

“Yo are you done?” He walked into the kitchen, standing next to you while you were on top of you

“You shouldn’t rush a lady, Jungkook.”

“I’ll keep that in mind when I meet one.”

“The things I have to put up with.”

“I’ll behave… starting now.” You rolled your eyes; does he enjoy purposely dancing on your last nerve?

He grabbed some snacks for you, packing them in your bag for you before zipping it up. He picked up your bag, you hop off the counter and grabbing your keys before locking your apartment.

“So, which beach are we going?”

“It’s a surprise.”

“Surprise? You’re not good at that kind of stuff.”

“I came prepared. Close your eyes.”

“Jungkook. What are you-”

“Trust me.” You closed your eyes, Jungkook placing a blindfold on you. He took your hand, leading you to the stairs and he stopped.

“Get on my back.”

“Jungkook, I can walk to the car without the blindfold. We haven’t started driving.”

“Doesn’t the suspense make it better?”

“How so? I’m not too sure if you’re not planning to murder me.”

“Wouldn’t I knock you out first?”

“Have you thought about this before?”

“Of course not, why would I? Don’t answer that and just get on.” He led your hand to his shoulder, you get behind him. He hoisted you up, you hold onto him as he walked you to his car.

His scent travelled to your nose, the smell of coconut shampoo and vanilla came to mind as the steady sound of his steps relaxed you a little.

“Alright, I’m letting you down.”

“It won’t be the first time.”

“You make it hard to be nice.”

“Sorry, it’s a reflex. I’ll play nice.” He snorted, you resist the urge to hit him and taking a seat with his help. You heard him quickly sit in the driver’s seat before driving to the secret place he wanted to show you.

“I’m still wondering why you told me to pack a swimsuit if we’re just going to a regular beach.”

“It’s not the beach that we always go to. It’s somewhere else.”

“This surprise thing better be worth it; my anxiety is through the roof.”

“I’m not going to kill you, who else is going to let me watch Netflix for free?”

“No one else because you let the dude catch on to us.”

“I figured out the password, we’re back in.”

“How did you?”

“I’m more than just beauty and brawn.”

“Good because there was something new with Black Mirror and I was so close to creating a subscription.”

“Aren’t you forgetting to say something?”

“Oh, I’m restricting your Netflix privileges. We got caught once, can’t get caught twice.”

“Why do I bother?”

“Because I’m worth it?”

“You’re something else.” The conversation continued, you become more at ease with the blindfold with Jungkook’s voice distracting you.

“We’re almost there.” You felt his hand reach for your seatbelt, his fingers haphazardly touching you and you shivered.

“Is it cold? Should have told you to wear warm clothes.”

“You look perfect the way you are though,” Jungkook said under his breath, the words barely audible to you.

“What was that?”

“Nothing. Let me help you out.” He reached for your hand, you hold onto him as you two walked to wherever he was leading you.

“Jungkook.”

“Almost there, I promise.”

“You said that 5 minutes ago.”

“I mean it this time.” You sighed, Jungkook continuing to walk with you. Finally, he stopped, and you stood still.

“Alright, I’m taking your blindfold off now.” He took off, you instantly shocked by what your eyes laid upon. It was a grotto; the dim light revealed the shimmering water and grey rock ceiling.

“How did you find this place?”

“Well, my crush likes the beach, but I figured the beach isn’t as exciting as this grotto. How did I do this time?”

“Better. It’s cute that you remember little details about her when you picked this place. I’m kind of jealous of her, this was supposed to be for her eyes only, right?”

“So, you’re jealous?”

“Is that all you heard?” You deadpanned, he really goes from cute to annoying in a few seconds flat.

“Well, I had to show you first, so it’ll be perfect for her. That’s the only reason why we’re here.”

“I know.”

“Now turn around, or not, I don’t mind stripping for you.”

“Thanks for the gross mental image.”

“Anytime.” You turned around, quickly taking off your clothes to reveal the swimsuit you wore underneath.

“Wow.”

“Is that good or bad?”

“I mean you don’t look horrible.”

“Is it hard to say something nice?”

“It feels weird to say that it looks good on you, okay.” He spat out, you smirking as he looked away.

“Don’t be shy, Kookie.”

“Shut it.”

“Tsk tsk, didn’t you say you would behave?” He started to walk towards you, his feet dragging along.

“What are you doing?” He kept coming closer, causing you to back away from him. The expressionless look on his face made your heart race, what was he thinking?

The thought didn’t occur to you until you backed yourself into the water. The plunge swarmed you with the cool temperatures of the water and Jungkook’s laughter echoed in the grotto.

“Oh, you think this is funny?”

“A little bit.” You grabbed his ankle, pulling him into the water and he fell in with a splash. He came up, shaking like a wet dog and hitting you with water.

“Hey!”

“You pulled me in.”

“I didn’t think you would shake like a wet dog.”

“Sorry for wanting to breathe.”

“You’re forgiven.”

“Wow.” You smiled, the expression only lasting a few seconds before Jungkook splashed you with water.

“That’s how you want to play, huh?” You splashed him back, him retaliating and the two of you continued like this until you were both breathing heavily.

“Truce?”

“Truce.” You sat up on the rocks, hugging your knees when Jungkook joined you.

“What is she like?”

“Who?”

“Your crush, idiot. What is she like?”

“She’s crass, sarcastic, hit me a lot-”

“Is this your way for telling me you’re a masochist? She doesn’t sound that great.”

“I wasn’t finished, child. She’s also kind, thoughtful, she got her walls built up to hide that side of her. Sometimes I wish she would show that side of her more, it’s more beautiful than she normally is.”

“Oh.”

“I didn’t mean to blab about her that much, I just really like her.”

“Yeah, you’re crazy enough to ask me for help about her.”

“You’re the only one dumb enough to agree.”

“You know what-”

“What?” You glared at him, Jungkook having a similar expression and you pinched his cheek. He did the same, the pain from the pinch sent tingles down your spine.

“Let go.”

“You first, Jungkook.”

“You let go first, Y/N.”

“On the count of three?”

“Ya. We’re not 5, let go!”

“Fine.” You let go, him following suit and you pouted while rubbing your cheek.

“Why are your cheeks so red? Did I pinch that hard?”

“Yeah, with your claws for hands.”

“I didn’t dig my nails into your cheeks, now they’re pink.”

“Quit staring at my cheeks, weirdo.”

“Why are you getting so snippy about your cheeks?”

“I’m going to go get towels.” He got up, leaving you to your vices and you scoffed. You stepped into the water again, going under to scare Jungkook.

You heard him coming back, dunking your head back under until he was close enough for you to pop up.

“Boo!” He barely flinched, you had your hair covering your face and he sighed loudly.

“The only scary thing about you is how you look when you get out of bed.”

“You can’t just pretend?” You got out of the water, standing in front of him.

“No can do, sweetheart. Don’t girls appreciate honesty or some shit?”

“Yes, but you can still play along, dude.”

“Here.” He put the towel over your head, drying it for you.

“You don’t have to.”

“Just stay still. There.” You moved the towel to your shoulders, blowing some hair out of your face.

“Thanks.”

“What was that?”

“I. Said. Thanks. You. Ass.”

“I don’t think you said that the first time.”

“How would you know? You didn’t hear me the first time, right?”

“Touché.”

“So, what’s next, Mr Romantic?”

“Dinner.”

“When did ice cream qualify as dinner?”

“They serve burgers too.”

“Jungkook.”

“Y/N. You like ice cream.”

“But I’m not her.”

“I wouldn’t date a girl that doesn’t like ice cream.”

“That isn’t the point, this date was perfect until this.”

“Not everything is perfect unlike me.”

“Did you really need to add in the self gloat?”

“Force of habit. Think about it like this, it gives me time to get to know her plus I doubt she would wear something fancy enough for a restaurant. I mean look at you.” You were back in normal clothes, a simple t-shirt and shorts. Jungkook was dressed casually as well, it’s doubtful a restaurant would give you a table dressed like this.

“You have a point. Wait, what was that supposed to mean-?”

“I’m glad you can agree.” You hit his hand, making his ice cream cone smear on his nose and you tried to stifle your laughter.

“Come here.”

“No way.” You started to run from him, making it a few meters before he caught you. He caught you in a hug, your back against his chest.

“Caught ya.”

“What are you going to do to me?”

“Hmm, what should I do with you? There’s so much I want to do to you right now.”

“That sounds so weird, just say it.”

“Clean this up, Y/N.” You pulled out the pack of Kleenex you kept with you, wiping Jungkook’s face and placed it in Jungkook’s hand.

“Don’t want to keep it for good luck?”

“What luck can I get from having your DNA?”

“Plenty, maybe you’ll find a man and quit clinging to me.”

“Says the one who comes to my house every day.”

“I didn’t come last Friday.”

“We went out last Friday, idiot. Taehyung and Jimin had to carry your drunk ass home.”

“It took the two of them? Weak.”

“Jungkook, you could barely stand. They were literally holding you up.”

“Don’t remember.”

“Thought so.”

“Alright, let’s go.” He reached for your wrist, pulling you along to his car.

“You’re not going to blindfold me again, are you?”

“Why, are you into that kind of thing?”

“Why is everything sexual with you?”

“When you’re built like a Greek god, you would understand.”

“You’re more like a buff teddy bear.”

“Way to boost my confidence.”

“Your confidence is already larger than this universe, it doesn’t need my help.”

“True.”

“I guess so.” You sighed, Jungkook smiling to himself while he drove you back to your apartment building. He parked, you get out as he unbuckled his seatbelt.

“What are you…”

“I’m walking you up to your place.”

“You don’t have to.”

“I want to.” He walked up next to you, the two of you not saying much until you were in front of your door.

“So, how was it this time?”

“It was great, you’re seeing her tomorrow, right?”

“Yeah, I’m really pumped.”

“Tell me how it goes.”

“Sure. Night.”

“Night.” Jungkook turned his heel, walking to the elevator and you entered your apartment. You felt a pang of jealousy; this mystery crush that Jungkook’s never mentioned before gets to see a side of Jungkook that you’ve rarely seen.

She gets to the thoughtful and careful side of him, his irresistible charm and you are left to wonder alone.

You shook the thoughts from your mind, this is Jungkook you’re thinking about. He’s your annoying but dependable best friend who sees you as a sister. Right?

There’s so much I want to do to you right now. Those words sent shivers down your spine, making you shiver, and you tried your best to distract yourself.

It’s been a week since you saw Jungkook, work served as a good distraction until it was the weekend.

You dialled Taehyung’s number, the phone rang twice before you were greeted by him.

What’s up, buttercup?

“What’s up with Jungkook?” You were in your room, just arrived home from work.

Did you guys fight again?

“No. He told me he had a date with his crush last Saturday and he hasn’t called or came back for a week.”

Date? What date? We had a movie session last Saturday. Kookie even said that you were too busy to come over.

“He said that?”

Yeah, I was surprised since you never miss movie nights.

“Yeah.”

Do you want me to tell Jungkook you’re looking for him?

“I’ll just call him myself. Thanks, Tae.”

No problem just come over once in a while! I miss you.

“Miss you too, I’ll come over soon, I promise. Bye.” He bid you goodbye before you hung up. You sat down on your bed, your mind racing with possibilities.

What reason would Jungkook have to lie about a date? Did he really have a hit in his confidence?

You texted him, shut off your phone and found yourself something to eat.

In midst of one of your favourite shows, Jungkook swung your door open while panting.

“Would you like a glass of water?”

“Why was… your phone… off?”

“Dunno, why did you lie to me about having a date last Saturday?”

“How did… you… find out?”

“Thanks for telling Tae and everyone else that I was too busy to come for movie night.”

“Goddamnit Taehyung…”

“Did you strike out or something? Did she turn you down?”

“No.”

“Then?”

“Because.”

“Is this really the time to be fucking stubborn? Spit it out, Jungkook.”

“Close your eyes.”

“Dude. Seriously?”

“It’s for my sake, please.” You rolled your eyes, what has gotten into him? You complied, hearing Jungkook walking over to you and stopping.

“I know I seem like this overly confident guy who doesn’t know the right time and place to say things, but I wanted this to be different.”

“I know I already fucked this up, but I didn’t know how to tell you without being a wimp. So, here it goes.”

“I’ve been in love with you ever since you showed me how to make sandcastles. I figured out that you added water but by then, I loved being around you that I needed an excuse to stick around.”

“I’m sorry that I couldn’t just say this, but I wanted to-”

“You’re an idiot.”

“I’m proclaiming my love for you and you’re calling me dumb?”

“Yes. I like you too, I realized it after you brought me home and didn’t talk to me afterwards.”

“Guess we need to be more honest with each other.”

“Excuse me, mister. I’m not the one who tricked the other into fake dates.”

“But weren’t they fun fake dates?”

“You should take me on a real date, Kook.”

“Of course, still got some tricks up my sleeve.”

“And tell me the truth from now on.”

“You sure about that?”

“Why wouldn’t I?”

“Well…” He glanced down, you followed his gaze and landed on his obvious bulge.

“You really don’t know about time and place.”

“It’s not my fault, you’re hot and I can see your bra a little…”

“Jungkook-” He leaned in for a kiss, his lips were rough in their motions, but the gentle touch of his hands distracted you.

You massaged his bulge, a groan escaping his mouth and his hands gave your butt a squeeze.

“I’ve wanted to do this for so long.”

“Do you have to say it like that?”

“Are you getting shy on me, sweetheart? Cute.” He lingered kisses down your jaw, each kiss adding to the heat pooling in your body.

“You make it seem… so natural.” He purposely grazed his teeth against your neck, his lips scoping out your sweet spot.

“Mhm.”

“J-Jungkook.” You moaned as he found the sensitive spot of your neck, his lips immediately sucking the delicate flesh.

You began stroking his erection once again, eliciting grunts and groans in response before you reached into his jeans. You allowed your hands to feel his length, amazed at the size. Jungkook would always boast about his dick size, you dismissed it as him exaggerating but it was the truth.

“Shit, baby.” He grunted near your ear before giving you a teasing nibble. You began pumping his cock, Jungkook stealing a kiss between.

“Bedroom?”

“Okay.” You pulled your hand out, Jungkook reaching for your other hand and quickly rushing to the bedroom. He shut the door before he was kissing you again.

You stumbled to the bed on underneath Jungkook, his hand on either side of you as your hands grip his shirt to pull him closer.

“Wanna kiss you until your lips are all swollen.”

“Touch me first.”

“Don’t have to tell me twice.” He muttered, slipping off the bed to let you move up before he situated himself between your legs. He took off your shorts along with your panties before looking at your newly exposed cunt.

“Don’t just stare…” He spread your lips apart, his tongue making quick work of the growing wetness. You mewl his name softly, the motion only making you unravel. He began fingering you, his tongue focusing on your clit.

The slow pace of his finger drawn out small bouts of pleasure with the circling of his tongue on your sensitive clit brought a chorus of moans and whimpers from your lips.

“Oh, fuck.” You cursed under your breath.

He added more fingers, his pace quickened as your mind began to pool along with the wetness of your cunt.

“Taking my fingers like a good fucking girl. My good fucking girl.” He murmured as his thumb rubbed against your clit, further stimulating you.

You could feel the brink of your orgasm for a moment before you were washed over with euphoric bliss.

“Why are you so hot?” He was fumbling with his belt, kicking off his bottoms and you bit your lip while watching.

“You tell me.”

“I’ll show you.” He rolled on a condom, placed his hand on your thighs and slowly entered your slit.

“So fucking tight.” He slipped his fingers between yours to hold himself up and you squeezed his hands while he continued to slide in. You urged him to begin moving with a clinch around his dick.

“Don’t do that, fuck.”

“Why not?”

“Unless you want me to come in 3 seconds, go ahead.”

“That’s how long you can last? I expect better.”

“Says the woman who’s already came once.”

“Don’t get cocky, Jeon.” He smirked, you clinched again, and he began to thrust harder.

“Going to mess you up so much you’ll remember how to scream my name.” He growled in your ear, his lips connecting to your neck again as he sucked a new hickey on your neck.

The slick of his cock thrusting into you was filled out by your shameless mewls and broken sobs. Your ears perked to the sounds of his groans and grunts as his hips slammed into yours.

“Shit.”

“Just like that, fuck.”

“M-Mmm.”

“Clinch for me.” You obliged, Jungkook letting out a drawn-out string of curses as you felt him coming. He pulled out of you, you sit up on the bed and he unrolled the condom.

He lied down next to you, you rest your head against his chest while his arm naturally settled at your hip.

“Y/N.”

“Yes?”

“You wanted me to be honest with you, right?”

“Kookie.”

“I honestly need round two.” Needless to say, the truth set him free.

[honeymoonjin]

enjoy your stay - chapter ten

A/N - I don’t put links in anymore so that this comes up on search, but check my masterlist linked in my bio for links to every previous/future chapter.

Word count 3k (as usual). After reading this chapter, tell me on anon (or not) who you think MC is going to end up with! Things are getting veeery complicated, and it’s only going to get more complex from here!

ENJOY YOUR STAY ↳Boss!Namjoon, Chef!Jin, Receptionist!Hoseok, Bellboy!Jimin, Bartender!Jungkook, Accountant!Yoongi, Photography student!Taehyung ↳Some inappropriate language and cursing. Later chapters have sexual content.

SUMMARY ↳Working the graveyard shift at a hotel isn’t the most exciting job in the world, but your coworkers are certainly happy to have you here.

CHAPTER TEN ↳The events of the past few days have changed things, and you struggle to remain professional at your job with the hole you’ve dug yourself into.

Seeing Jimin in the lobby or the hallways was a different experience than it used to be.

Gone were the cheeky back-and-forths, the inside jokes, the easy atmosphere.

You couldn’t help but avoid his gaze whenever you two were in the same vicinity, knowing that if you did, you wouldn’t be able to school your expression. You didn’t even know yourself how you’d react, if you would scornfully glare at him with a hateful scowl or just melancholily pine after what could’ve been.

Life had gotten infinitely more confusing within a very short space of time. It weirded you out, knowing what you two had done together, and also knowing what, or rather who, you had done almost immediately after.

Jimin obviously didn’t know, but you had no idea how long that would last. A shadow of shame was following you around in the two shifts you had worked since you and Jungkook…had gotten together. It was like all your morals and common sense had abandoned you to your foolish fuckery, and now you couldn’t stop thinking about all the things you’d do differently if you had the chance.

If Namjoon had noticed you were a little quieter, he hadn’t said anything. If he noticed how quickly you got back from checking out the lobby, and how long you seemed to spend in the bar, he was keeping his mouth shut. Hobi, however, was one wrong word away from a breakthrough, and you had to be extra careful with him.

“Jimin said you looked extra beautiful today,” Hoseok mock-whispers conspiratorially.

You fiddle with the eftpos machine he had asked you to fix and ignore him.

“Okay, he didn’t, but he’s probably thinking it. He’s been staring at you nonstop for the past two days.” He awaits your response, and huffs when there is none. “And he told me what happened between you two, so you don’t have to keep it from me.”

His overly calm and hopeful face is a dead giveaway he’s lying. “Then you don’t need to hear it again.”

“Come on, muppet! Give me something! I can’t help out my two best friends who fucked but for some reason are mad at each other if I don’t know why they’re mad at each other!”

You drop the dysfunctional machine and frown at him. “It’s none of your business, Hoseok,” you whine, “so just stay out of it! We just…want different things, that’s all,” you concede.

His eyes glimmer in sympathy. “Hey,” he soothes, “you’ll find someone who cares for you like you want. I’m sure he’s just around the corner.”

Although you know it’s just a cheesy metaphor, you think of Jungkook, who is most literally right around the corner, geographically speaking. Another wave of guilt crashes down on you. “Yeah.”

“Cheer up, buttercup. If it makes you happy, I’ll tell you what Yoongi did for me for Valentine’s day yesterday.”

You perk up. “Ooh, what did he do?”

“Nothing,” he replies flatly, “nada. Not even a text. Moral of the story is that no guy’s perfect. He might have the cock of a god and the tongue of a demon, but he’ll still ghost you on the most romantic day of the year.”

You laugh softly. “Ah, well, at least you’re getting paid. Win-win situation. If he does my taxes and doesn’t have sex with me as payment, I don’t know if I’ll feel guilty or insulted.”

“Good luck convincing him he’s not completely gay.” He hummed a little in deep contemplation. “If he does have sex with you, it’s like you’ll have indirectly fucked me. Against all biological chances, your vagina will have touched my asshole.”

You stare at him in disgust for a solid minute, waiting for the moment he realized what a fucked-up thing that was to say and take it back. He doesn’t. “You know,” you start begrudgingly, “Yoongi explicitly asked to tell you to stop talking about your sex life with him. I cannot believe I’m saying this, but I should’ve listened to him.”

“What do you mean? It’s a two-for-one deal! Would you rather have sex with me without the middle man? I think not.”

You scrunch up your eyebrows. “I’ve decided if he does my taxes and doesn’t expect sex in return, I should just be grateful I get to avoid thinking about that ever again. Maybe I should consider leaving this job and working in a monastery so that I never again have to see your face or his.”

“I think you’re overreacting.”

You spy Jimin beginning to approach the desk and frown. “I think I have to get back to work.”

True to his word, Jungkook has been treating you better than any man you’ve been with before. In the bar fridge underneath the bench, he’s stockpiled some iced coffee cartons for you, since he knows you prefer it to hot coffee, and every time you stop by, he pulls one out and gets you to sit down while the two of you chat.

Today’s no different, and you’re tucked in behind the bar with him so that he can wrap an arm around you as you speak.

“Jungkook-ah, what if Namjoon or somebody else sees? This isn’t professional,” you warn him, but he simply smiles and shakes his head.

“There’s nothing wrong with them seeing us. In fact, I kinda hope they do.” His eyes glaze over, and his smile hardens slightly. “I want every man in this building to know you’re mine now.”

You stare up at him unsurely. “I don’t think we should take things so fast, Jungkook.” He furrows his eyebrows. “We barely know each other, and you’re so young, I don’t know if I should really-”

“Hey,” he interjects, “I’ve told you before, I’m not a kid. I can make my own decisions like a big boy, okay? And I know enough about you to know that I’m completely crazy about you. I’ve never felt this way about someone before. I love you.”

You stiffen in his grasp but try not to sound like you’re patronizing him. “That’s the thing, Jungkook. You’ve never felt this way before. So how do you know it’s love? It’s probably just your garden variety crush.”

His hand tightens on your shoulder a little, but his face is still open, staring deeply into your eyes. “How did you know, then, what it was like when you fell in love.”

“To be honest, Kookie, I haven’t fallen in love before. And I’ve been in many more relationships than I’m sure you have. It’s not something that just happens on a whim.”

“So, you don’t love me, then?”

You gaze up at him and his vulnerable stare, unsure if he’s mad or upset. “I really like you, Jungkook, but I don’t know you well enough to love you.”

He’s quiet for a moment. “That’s okay,” he states after a few moments, “you don’t have to love me. I’ll just be happy if you let me love you.” He tilts his head down and gently presses a kiss to your slightly parted lips. His eyes flutter closed when the two of you connect, and although your mind is screaming to be professional and mature, you can’t help but do the same. His lips are soft but firm, and he pokes his tongue out just enough to swipe at your lips, sucking the bottom one gently into his mouth and nibbling on it.

The electricity inside you jolting south is most definitely too much for the workplace, and reluctantly you place a hand on his chest and push him off you, him chasing your mouth until the last second.

“Kookie,” you mumble softly, worried at how quickly your voice has turned low and sultry with arousal, “not here.”

He pouts a little but nods anyway. “Have a good shift, jagiya. I’ll look forward to 5am so that the two of us can go home together again. It’s become the happiest part of my day.”

He lets you out from behind the bar again, staring dreamily at you as you walk out.

As you finish typing a message to Yoongi, sending him your address after he gave you a date and time to go over your finances, a solid body comes crashing into yours.

Startled, you glance up, almost losing your balance fully, and stumble back from the tall, broad-shouldered man in front of you.

“Y/n!” You smile at him awkwardly. “It’s been ages.”

That would be from your stubborn refusal to check out the kitchen each night until you could see on the security cameras in Namjoon’s office that his car had left the carpark. “I guess it has! How have you been?”

He smiles sweetly down at you and escorts you with a hand at the small of your back down the hallway from whence he came. “Not too bad. We had bombe Alaska for dessert tonight, so I got to set things on fire again. I always love when Namjoon lets me do that. I think secretly he enjoys it too. The accountant told me he once walked in on him playing it back on the CCTV footage. He’s too scared to do it himself, you see. Anyway, that was fun.”

The two of you approach the restaurant, but instead of taking you out back into the kitchen where he usually spends his time, he sits you down at one of the booths, upholstered in dark green velvet with a black tabletop, and gets in across from you.

“I’m glad I bumped into you,” he admitted, “I’ve been wanting to talk to you for a while, actually.”

You scratch behind your ear awkwardly. “Oh, really?”

“Yeah. I’ve been feeling a lot better lately, a lot more like myself. And I realized, no wonder we never really had a chance, we went about it backwards.” He’s puffing his chest up like he’s made some astounding breakthrough.

You grin wryly. “How so? Crying into a bin of ice-cream isn’t the regular first date protocol?”

“Exactly,” he confirms enthusiastically, “you cry on the third date. They’re into you enough not to be put off completely by it, but then they know how ugly you get when you cry, and they’ll make an effort to never let you cry again.” He tilts his head to the side, pouting his lips in deep contemplation. “Although I suppose it wouldn’t really work with me. I’m a ten no matter if I’m happy or sad. Nobody rocks bloodshot eyes and snot quite like I can.”

You snort. “A man of many talents, I see.”

“Oh, absolutely. Cooking I can do in my sleep. My true calling is being professionally good-looking.”

You look up at him through your lashes and bat them flirtatiously. “I would say you’re overqualified.”

He presses a palm to his chest and turns his head to the side dramatically. “Ah, you’re so right!” He faces you again, a little less jokey this time. “See, aren’t I so different than the miserable yet dashingly attractive man crying in the kitchen? I’m much happier now, I feel like I’m me again.”

You smile at him softly and nod. “Yeah, I can see that now. It’s not like there’s anything wrong with the real you, though. I like you just the same.”

He stares at you thoughtfully. “Let’s just start from scratch,” he suggests, “we can pretend like nothing happened, and that I’ve been the comedically gifted and handsome chef this whole time and see what happens. Sound good?”

He holds out a hand for you to take, but instead of a handshake, he offers up a pinky. You scoff, but wrap your pinky around his anyway, rocking your joint hands back and forth as you speak. “Well, I’m glad you’ve moved on from your days of crying pathetically into a tub of ice cream. It’s much better to bawl your eyes out into soup, that way it doubles as seasoning.”

“Bold of you to assume I don’t already use my bodily fluids when I cook.”

You frown at him. “I’m never letting you cook for me again.”

He calls out to you as you go to leave the restaurant. “Hey, wait, I didn’t say which ones! I realize now had bad that sounded, I swear I just meant sweat, where are you going?”

“Y/n, would you mind taking a seat? I just want to talk to you about something.”

Your heart seizes up and just about falls out of your chest, but you plaster on an easygoing smile, and sit down in the armchair across from Namjoon’s desk.

Whenever the ‘we need to talk’ card was played, you would always begin wildly recalling every bit of trouble you could have possibly been caught for, usually irrationally, but this time, as you wiped off the sweat gathering on your palms and tried not to look too terrified, you realized just how low your morals and sense of professionalism had fallen since working here. Whether it was helping Jin sneak off with a tub of ice-cream that the hotel had paid for or sleeping with multiple work colleagues, you really had crossed the line far too many times.

Namjoon seemed pretty stressed as usual, apparently unaware his sweater was inside-out, but he didn’t look mad. In fact, he was smiling at you like he was sucking up to the teacher.

“First of all,” he begun, “I can’t thank you enough for all the great work you’ve done so far. I know the night team can sometimes be hard to deal with, but it’s been such a great help having an extra person to help me keep up with things.” Introduction over, he clears his throat and steeples his fingers. “So, that’s why I’m asking if you would want to become a co-owner with me.”

You freeze.

He smiles hopefully at you.

You stare at him. “Sorry, what?”

Namjoon laughs nervously. “It wouldn’t be a huge change in hours for you, but it would mean a lot more responsibility when it came to running the hotel as a whole, not just during the night shift. It’s mostly more admin stuff, like the monthly reports, the payroll, that kind of thing. I just thought to myself, ‘why am I freaking out over these by myself when I have a perfectly capable young lady right here?’”

Your mind is whirring, and you don’t get the chance to compile your thoughts before he’s talking again.

“It would also mean that you would be in charge of the rest of the team, too, and you could resolve any issues yourself rather than just relaying them to me. I’d increase your pay for all this, of course. What do you say?”

You stare down at your hands, picking at the dead skin around your nails. “I’m not sure,” you admit, “I don’t think I’d feel comfortable having authority over the other guys.” You could never tell Namjoon, but if you took the job it would technically mean Jungkook was sleeping with his boss. You didn’t think your eternal soul could take the hit. “I’m friends with some of them, and, well, it might be weird hanging out with them outside of work if I’m their boss, you know?”

He sighs a little. “Of course, I understand. It’s up to you. I’ll give you, say, a week to think over it a little longer and get back to me, okay?”

You nodded, and he went to go back to the pile of reports on his desk, but you cleared your throat before he did. “Hey, Namjoon,” you said casually.

“Yeah?”

“Is it…can you…do coworkers ever date each other? At this hotel, I mean.”

His eyes flash downwards. “Sometimes,” he answers noncommittedly.

You recall Jin mentioning his history with Namjoon and realize how your question must sound to him. “And you’re okay with it?”

His forehead creases. “Well, as long as it doesn’t affect their work, I don’t see it as a problem.” He looks back up at you. “Why?”

You shrug, breaking his gaze and staring into the glow of the desk lamp. “Just curious, is all.”

He waits until you glance back up at him before responding. “You know you can come to me about anything, don’t you? No judgements, I promise. I just want my employees to feel like they can be completely honest with me.”

You can’t break away from the earnest warmth in his eyes. It’s like he’s broken down your filter, and you want to tell him everything. You can’t tell him everything, but maybe a little something would serve as an olive branch. “I…There was a thing with another employee, but it was a one-off.”

He nods slowly. “I’m glad you felt comfortable sharing that with me. Are there any problems; hurt feelings, festering resentment?”

You breathe out a quiet laugh. “No.” A whole fucking boatload of confusion, maybe, but that wasn’t exactly all Jimin’s fault.

“Then no harm done. We’re good?” You nod. “Good.” He pauses, pen hovering over a page. “Please do think seriously about that co-owner position. I really appreciate you as a worker and as a person. And you’re right; it’s hard to make friends with people when one of you is the boss of the other. I’d love to have you working with me rather than for me.” He nods to himself once resolutely and turns back to his work.

You feel as though a weight has been lifted off your chest, but unfortunately, there are three other weights that remain. Kim Seokjin, Jeon Jungkook, and Kim Taehyung.

Some secrets just weren’t ready to be shared.

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My Review of Dirty Pair

Now that I think about it…if you look at Dawn and Zoey from Diamond & Pearl…they could pull this off. I’m starting to have some questions for Pokemon’s animators in the mid-2000s. Next factor is that every time I attended Kraken Con in Oakland, they would usually play the first 4 episodes of this anime. And I would catch a few minutes or a random episode (most of the time it was episode 3). And finally, it’s an anime that came out in the 1980s. Let’s face it, what other anime have I watched came out before 1986 that’s not named Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, or Ranma ½? Thought so! If you're in big trouble, call the World Welfare Work Association or 3WA. They will send out a team of highly trained capable agents (also known as Trouble Consultants) who can solve your problems. But if the team they send you is the infamously named Dirty Pair, there will be a lot of collateral damage aside from solving your problems. The Dirty Pair (or Lovely Angels as the girls would like to be refered to) consists of Kei and Yuri, two ladies who are well equipped to help whoever, wherever, and whenever…for the right price. Win these ladies over with handsome men, bonuses, and luxurious items and they’ll help you with whatever the problem is. BETWEEN THE SUB AND THE DUB: I do face the same kind of dilemma watching this as I did with Rose of Versailles because I’m going to experience hearing people I’ve never really listened to until now (with the exception of Yuri’s seiyuu because she was in a lot of the Rumiko Takahashi animes I’ve watched). Licensing wise, last checked, Nozomi Entertainment has all the Dirty Pair animes (including the TV series, specials, OVA series, the spin-off series, and the movie). And if memory serves, I believe ADV once had claims over some if not all of this series. However, not everything got a dub. Pretty much, everything except for the original TV series got a dub. I got a chance to listen to the English dub and thought it was okay for the most part. It’s not ear-gratingly horrifying if that’s what you want me to say. With the dub, I noticed Yuri’s voice was different in some specials and I do have a theory on that. Apparently Jessica Calvello voiced Yuri during the OVA series, while Allison Sumrall did the specials and movies. My guess for that was when they were dubbing this, it was around that time when Calvello blew out her vocal chords…Yeah, that happened. But no complaints from me here either! Here’s what you might recognize these folks from. JAPANESE CAST: *Kei is played by Kyouko Tonguu *Yuri is played by Saeko Shimazu (known for Kodachi on Ranma ½, Princess Abi on InuYasha, and Shinobu on Urusei Yatsura) ENGLISH CAST: *Kei is played by Pamela Lauer *Yuri [in the OVA series] is played by Jessica Calvello (known for Prima on Pokemon, Hange on Attack on Titan, Excel on Excel Saga, Aika on Aria, Kanako on Maria Holic, and Suigintou on Rozen Maiden: Zurückspulen) *Yuri [in the movie] is played by Allison Sumrall (known for Kagura on Azumanga Daioh, Miia on Monster Musume, Shinichi’s mother on Parasyte, and Sasasegawa on Little Busters)

SHIPPING: These ladies are quite promiscuous. So it’s pretty easy to say they flirt with a different sort of men each episode. But there was one episode during the television run where Yuri really had something for a boy that deserves a mention. In the 8th episode of the original TV series, Yuri gets word of a childhood love (named Billy) reaching out to her. She was ready to leave her life and job as a Lovely Angel to be with him. Unfortunately, Kei comes across the unfortunate truth about Yuri’s long-lost love, Billy. He died while trying to complete his project. But Kei decided to keep this fact away from Yuri and instead told her it’ll take Billy a lot longer to complete his work. And Yuri will wait for him.

There have been a few notable men as well that made a dent in Kei and Yuri’s love life. Hell, there was even an episode where Yuri almost tied the knot with a man in the OVA series that almost got me to second guess Yuri’s angle. When it comes to Kei…yeah, there were a few guys on her radar but none that really stood out. Except I couldn’t help but wonder if there would ever be something between Kei and Carson from the movie! Regardless, Kei and Yuri are just too promiscuous and wild to just settle down with one guy (unless he was a handsome sugar daddy). ENDING TO TV SERIES: I don’t want to call it much of an ending because all the episodes follow the same pattern and that’s the girls work on a case they’re given and they finish their mission (more or less). If you ask me, the television series should have ended on the two-parter episode where Kei and Yuri are helping a family find a plane that has 463 missing passangers.

The final episode consisted of the girls in an apartment with three salesmen and a policeman in game of who’s the killer. Because of recent murders in the area involving women, Kei and Yuri were placed in an apartment to be on lookout. And for some reason, those four men wound up in the apartment together. Thanks to some clever intuition on Yuri’s part, she was able to figure out who the killer was and the reason behind the killer’s message. A year after the television series ended, they released two special episodes that follow suit to the series. Meaning the girls have to solve their mission. And the final one involved trying to save their chief from some kidnappers. PROJECT EDEN: Oh my God, could this movie be any more 1980s?! Half the movie has no dialogue and all those parts feel like a long-ass music video. I’m not knocking it, I just find it amusing. I want to call it a side-story from the original series. Basically, Kei and Yuri are working together with a smuggler (named Carson D. Carson…this name is literally too funny to comment on) from a previous mission to stop a crazy doctor from unleashing aliens upon the world. Seriously, just watch this! It’s a trip! OVA SERIES: Two years after the original television series finished (1987), Dirty Pair was given 10 more episodes in an OVA series. I guess you can call it a sequel as the stories all seem to follow the same premise as Yuri and Kei are on a different mission in each episode. There were only a few key differences here. First of all, unlike the television series, this set got an English dub. Again, I still don’t know why they neglected to dub the original TV series and dub this, the movie, and spin-off. Whatever! Secondly, in this series we got to see a few more people who work in the 3WA (besides Chief Gooley). The 3WA is a big organization and we really knew nothing about anyone else aside from Kei and Yuri (and to a lesser extent Chief Gooley). But there were characters like Madam Beryl and Dr. Q who seem to show up in more than just one episode here to help the girls. It's a shame we never saw more of these OVA's. And then we have Dirty Pair Flash!

What the shit?! What is this hot mess? This is not Yuri and Kei! I know their names are Yuri and Kei, but they’re not the ones I’ve been watching for the past year. As you can see, this is a definite product of the 1990s. Take something from the 70s and 80s and bastardize it with wonky animation, flashy colors, and every kooky sound effect you heard during 1990’s animes! Give me one good reason why I should even look at this!

Holy crap, is that Rica freakin’ Matsumoto in that fucking main cast?! And this was BEFORE she played Satoshi?! Fine…Imma watch it!

This is Kei and Yuri. No, they’re not the Kei and Yuri from the original series. This Kei and Yuri are different. This series is sort of an alternate setting to the original Dirty Pair. It’s not the same universe where the 3WA gives the names “Kei” and “Yuri” to new recruits. There won’t be an episode where both Kei’s and Yuri’s meet. This is something completely different! Now aside from their “radical” new look, Kei and Yuri here kinda differ from the Kei and Yuri from the 1980’s anime? Just a smidge. Kei is way more tomboyish than the original one. I know the original Kei was a tomboy too, but she also seemed promiscuous when it came to men unlike the newer one. This Kei didn’t really feel too interested in men all that much. Both Yuri’s seem the same as they can both be promiscuous, flighty, and hopelessly romantic when it comes to men. But the one thing that stays the same is that these girls always find a way to botch-up the missions. The cast of course has changed and with many more recognizable voice actors in the sub (to me). Here’s what you might recognize these folks from. JAPANESE CAST: *Kei is played by Rica Matsumoto (known for Ash on Pokemon, Yami/Bakura on YGO, Rumi on Perfect Blue, Choromatsu on Osomatsu-kun, and Sis on Now and Then Here and There) *Yuri is played by Mariko Kouda (known for Sakura on Pokemon, Nayuki on Kanon, Kaya on One Piece, and Juri on Vampire Knight) ENGLISH CAST: *Kei is played by Sue Ulu (known for Ritsuko on Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ayako on Golden Boy) *Yuri is played by Kim Sevier (known for Yui on Neon Genesis Evangelion and Noriko on Golden Boy) Dirty Pair Flash had something I kinda wished to see with the original series. Continuity! At least it was the case of the first set of OVA’s as it does show how this Kei and Yuri got paired up and their hardships of having to work together as the “Lovely Angels” of the 3WA. While with the original, we already jump into Kei and Yuri’s line of work where they already have a reputation as the infamous “Dirty Pair”, here we actually see this Kei and Yuri first get paired up. Kei was a delinquent and on probation and Yuri was one of the lowest in her class, let’s pair them up! What could possibly go wrong?

The first set of OVA’s had Kei on a literal manhunt for someone only to later find out it was a former member of the 3WA who has been causing mischief. Hell, she was one of the original Lovely Angel duo. The second set of OVA’s Kei and Yuri had to spend 5 episodes with a computer geek named Touma. The episodes here weren’t as continuous as they were in the previous set (as they don’t follow a strict storyline). And the finale to the second set felt very rushed to take out one bad guy. Seriously, all that build-up for such a sorry payoff!

The final set of OVA’s, five more stories that don’t connect whatsoever. And that’s a shame since you got an episode where Kei is taking care of a (now) orphaned baby and an episode where Yuri is a literal object of a little boy’s desire. I will give it this, the final episode where there’s a terrorist on the loose trying to kill the chief of the 3WA was pretty intense. All in all, Dirty Pair Flash was okay. I think I was more of a fan of the original Dirty Pair, but that’s just me. There were some things I liked from Flash too, don’t get me wrong. This series however gets extra points having Rica Matsumoto sing several songs on here. As for old school Dirty Pair…I can honestly say I jumped into this series blind-folded. One of the types of animes I don’t normally touch are sci-fi and mecha. It was never really my thing but every few years or so I would pick up titles with those specific genres. But I enjoyed watching the episodes of Dirty Pair. I almost want to compare this to any cop show you see on TV. Mostly for the aspect of two cops working together! It’s easy to say that Kei and Yuri do get the job done, but sometimes they fuck up. And that’s a common trope in many cop shows/movies (the entertaining ones). Plus I always found myself chuckling at the witty/catty banter between Kei and Yuri. How often do you see two female cops in this situation? In most of the shows I’ve seen it’s always between two guys! Sure it gives off a stereotype of if you put two girls in a room, all they’ll do is bitch and scratch each other’s eyes out. Yes, this does happen from time to time. But Kei and Yuri have always gotten along for the most part.

…Oh yeah…I suppose I should talk about the sex appeal. Even for the time this aired, I’m surprised they got away with these girls wearing butt-hugging shorts in literally every episode. Then again, it’s Japan. I can’t imagine what they’d be wearing nowadays. But for what it’s worth, I say give it a watch. If you’re a fan of police shows, mecha, or both, this might be right up your alley. And if you want to give Dirty Pair Flash a try, go for it too. I just suggest watching the original first, but that’s just my opinion. Through Nozomi Entertainment, you can purchase just about anything of Dirty Pair for home video. Nozomi Entertainment also put up a few of the specials, the movie Project Eden, and the entire set of Dirty Pair Flash on their Youtube page. Okay, now that’s over with. What’s the next Discotek license/older anime am I watching next?

Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan? 2019 sure loves to torture me.

[sapphicscholar]

Pride Month Prompts Day 22: Wedding (Grace/Frankie)

From this Pride Month Prompts post! I’m taking the opportunity to write some short fics for a variety of pairings that I haven’t written for as much. I’ll be sure to tag them all with #pride month prompts so you can find them later if you’d like!

Day 22: Wedding - on AO3 as Casual Simplicity

Pairing: Grace/Frankie

A/N: I apologize if this has already been done and I haven’t gotten to read that particular fic yet!

“Marry me.”

They’re words Grace never expected to hear again, not after 40 years of a loveless marriage came crumbling down around her, the husband she’d tolerated for so long apparently deciding that the years she gave him weren’t enough to make up for that “more” he’d gone chasing in another man’s arms, sneaking away on long “business trips” and leaving her alone with the children she’d come to love but had never wanted for her own sake. But the words are real. Nick is real, sitting there, right in front of her, looking perfectly handsome in a tailored suit from a designer that Grace has heard of and approves of. But the words—they have to be a joke, and she says as much.

Only Nick doesn’t leave. He stays there, telling her he doesn’t care if it’s crazy; he wants to marry her anyway. There’s an answer for every question, even that why that Grace has tried to avoid thinking too hard about when it comes to most of her romantic decisions. But Nick smiles up at her, more guileless than he’ll ever be during the business day, and tells her it’s simple, says, “I love you,” says, “I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”

And there’s something so damn attractive about simple.

Robert had seemed simple. He was a lawyer from a wealthy family with a charming smile and an easy laugh. He was a perfect gentleman on their dates, never pushing her to do things she didn’t want to do—later, she’ll wonder if all those years of polite manners were just repression dressed up in bourgeois niceties. When he asked her to marry him, neither of them asked why, neither of them wondered if it would be enough, if it would be the kind of love that sent them reeling. They fit. Socially, politically, financially, hell, even aesthetically—Robert’s taller, slightly stockier frame the perfect accessory to finish off Grace’s ensembles, right along with all shimmering, pre-packed gift jewelry that accentuated prominent collar bones and thin wrists and long, perfectly manicured fingers.

Simple makes sense. Simple is Byron telling Grace she’s “smokin’ hot” and sweeping her off her feet—quite literally—his desire plain for the world to see. Simple is the way her body had reacted to that show of need, of someone wanting her so clearly, so straightforwardly, at least until her mind caught up with her.

Everything with Nick would be simple. Problems would be purchased and turned into solutions or made to disappear. Love would be something declared in clear prose. Meals would appear and could be ignored in turn, the dishes vanishing and leftovers sliding down a garbage disposal that would never be clogged with paint or dirt or the DVR remote that had gone missing weeks ago. Sex would happen on a semi-regular basis and would continue to be semi-good, and Vybrant, promising older women that they could enjoy genuinely fulfilling sexual pleasure, would continue to flourish, and never would she let herself hold those two things up side-by-side for a comparison that might show her things she didn’t want to see.

Grace leans over and kisses Nick, hoping it’s answer enough when she can’t make her mouth form the sounds needed to agree to this next simple step. He cups her jaw and kisses her, smiling into it, and it isn’t Byron’s rough hands, but it’s real. It isn’t some video broadcast to the whole Internet talking about kisses that never happened—kisses offered in jest and discussed in public and penciled into Grace’s otherwise pristine planner in all capital letters, but never a real option.

As Grace walks down the beach, tucked into Nick’s side, she finally manages a, “Yes.” And that settles it. Because Nick doesn’t offer things he doesn’t mean. He doesn’t proposition someone for years only to laugh—loudly, too loudly—and insist it had been a great big tease all along when they finally start to say yes.

Only, it turns out that for all his simplicity, Nick wants some of that simplicity in return. He wants someone who will want him back. Can deal with a third player in the game, but not when it becomes clear that player 3 will always be priority 1.

They’re in the back of Nick’s car, flying down the highway on their way to be married, but all Grace can think about, can talk about, is Frankie. About what Frankie said. About everything Frankie has done. About all the ways Frankie has been telling her, again and again, even after her walking disease of a boyfriend took his yurt and fucked off, that what they have isn’t enough—and why shouldn’t it be enough? Why can’t it be enough? Why is Grace—again, always—being told that what she valued as enough someone else saw as lacking, never the “more” that would somehow make it worthwhile?

Nick shrugs his shoulders, as laissez-faire in his attitude towards Frankie’s behavior as he wants the government to be about his business. “Maybe Kooky wants something that you already have without her.”

“And what the hell would that be?” Grace snaps, yanking her hand free of Nick’s, too annoyed to want his easy comfort right now.

Nick turns to face her head on then, and Grace can see something like resignation in his expression, wonders how she’s fucked another thing up today, all before the sun has even set. “I meant me. A relationship.”

“Oh.”

Before Grace can get out one of those light, breezy laughs and paper over the fact that she’s forgotten the very thing she’s on her way to concretize in binding, legal documents, Nick takes her hand in his once more. “Maybe I should have listened when you told me this was crazy.”

“Nick.”

“I love you, Grace. I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. But not when you’ll always be there wondering about someone else.”

“It’s not the same,” Grace insists, her voice cracking as Nick’s words edge close—too close—to the questions that she’s been trying to quiet with pills and drown in vodka.

“No, it’s not the same. But I think I’m on the losing side here.”

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Hovering on that thin line between still drunk and already hungover that would normally have Grace reaching for either a new drink or an Ambien and a few Advil, Grace pulls her sweater tighter around herself to ward off the chill as she wanders down the beach. The sea lions are quiet now, the breeze barely a whisper in the air. If only Bud and Allison had scheduled their wedding for 4am, then no one would have known that Grace couldn’t make heads or tails of Frankie’s pictionary Post Its.

The lights are almost all out at the beach house now, though the outside decorations are still up, long strings of fairy lights twinkling in the night sky. Grace knows she could walk back in, go up to her room, and sleep in a bed, but after hours of drunken contemplation alone, she isn’t quite sure she deserves it. Yes, Frankie had left stupid notes that made no fucking sense, but Grace could have asked, could have dealt with Joan Margaret and gotten on Frankie’s calendar, or pulled a Frankie and scrawled her name across the entire day (and she thinks Frankie may well have honored such a request). Instead, she’d assumed that Frankie was being, well, Kooky—and the caricature of Kooky that Nick thought he knew, not the slightly kooky but also brilliant, caring, warm woman Grace had come to know over the years.

Of course, there’s still anger there, too. Anger at Frankie for thinking that her life only meant something if she drank disgusting cacao and slept in a yurt on a beachfront in La Jolla and stole the Whole Foods groceries Grace was still buying for her and acted like somehow it was all enlightened because some man who smelled like feet and patchouli told her it was. Anger at Frankie for getting stoned and tweeting out promises that would bankrupt the company they’d worked so hard to build together—their refuge in a world that told them they didn’t matter. Anger at Frankie for posting some poorly edited video that made it sound like they were some old lesbian couple selling vibrators and sneaking into one another’s rooms late at night to kiss and test out their merchandise. Anger at Frankie for making her think about those things, making her wonder about those possibilities.

Then Frankie’s own anger and hurt comes rushing back at her. The betrayal in her voice when she’d seen the store-bought cake—the last straw that seemed to scream into that big empty kitchen: “I don’t trust you to do anything, not even when it comes to your children.” But Grace’s mind keeps returning, again and again, to the big fuck you moment—at least the one Frankie named as such. “You ran away with your boyfriend.” Grace absolutely loathes the hope she can feel bubbling up in her chest at the thought that maybe Frankie does see value in what they are together, that maybe Nick hurt Frankie—not because he was a capitalist or a fiscal conservative, but because he was there, with Grace, the new second name to her “Grace and”—as much as the yurt hobo and the version of Jacob who’d decided Santa Fe was a good idea had hurt Grace.

Eventually Grace settles herself in on a pile of rocks, tries to ignore the aches and pains that have become so much sharper as all the alcohol from earlier fades into the cold sobriety of almost-morning. Closing her eyes, Grace lets her mind drift, thinks about all that might have been had she run off with Nick and gone through with the marriage. Would she be here now? She doubts it. A wife would have been at home in bed with her husband, not sitting on the beach desperately needing to make things right with the woman who’d been her home for the past five years.

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It’s a little after sunrise when Grace sees what she thinks is another figure down the beach. Her eyesight isn’t as bad as Frankie’s, but it certainly isn��t what it once was. Deciding it’s worth the potential humiliation of yelling at a stranger or an inanimate object, Grace stands and starts moving toward the blurry shape, yelling, “Frankie!”

But then the blurry shape is standing and yelling, “Grace!” right back at her.

And she doesn’t care that her knee is screaming, doesn’t care that Grace Hanson most definitely does not run, because her heart is pushing her as fast and as far as she can go—even if it isn’t very far or very fast.

“I’ll come to you!” And Frankie, who eats carbs and whipped cream and gummy bears for breakfast, is running like some sort of elite athlete in the 65+ category, while Grace waits, half hobbling, desperately hoping her knee won’t give out on her now.

Then Frankie is in front of her, and all the anger slips away in the face of the person she might have lost, maybe forever, and everything Grace has been thinking comes pouring out of her. Apologies for the terrible things she’s said. Admissions that she’s become a better person, someone that most days she can stand to look at in the mirror, with Frankie at her side. And somehow it all builds to Grace, standing on the beach, waves crashing beside them and the surf inching closer and closer to their feet, holding Frankie close, calling her a best friend, a partner, telling her that she needs her. And there’s nothing simple about that need. There are no straightforward lines where Frankie can do x or be y to fulfill z. It’s a need mingled with pangs of annoyance and frustration and anger but wrapped up in what Grace is finally realizing is love, and somehow that outweighs everything else, makes it simple even when it’s not. “I need you,” Grace repeats, blinking back tears that make Frankie look blurry, even now when she’s only inches away.

“Oh, I need you too.” Frankie falls into her arms with the words, holds her tight, the last vestiges of their fight falling away the longer they stay like that. “So, let’s go home.”

A sentimental part of Grace that rarely rears its head, and even more rarely gets anything out, wants to say that she’s already there. Instead she blurts out, “Nick asked me to marry him.” In an instant, all the happiness and love in Frankie’s expression is clouded over with hurt. “I—we’re not.”

“Not getting married?”

“Not getting married. Not together.” A deep breath. “He felt like he was always competing with you. Competing and losing.” Frankie’s usual taunts about beating Nick in any way are absent. She looks cautious, and Grace wonders if the same fragile hope is demanding shelter from her too. “Maybe he’s right.”

The quiet maybe isn’t enough to bring Frankie back to that joyous openness—not after she’s put back up those walls so few people realize she has in the face of all the pain Grace’s declaration had been poised to deliver.

This will never be simple, and Frankie will never be Robert, assuming Grace will say yes because it follows logically. She will never be Nick, convinced so deeply of her own charms that she’ll put her heart on the line in matters of love without a moment’s hesitation. Despite the “fuck it” lifestyle, she will never be Byron, desire plainly written in every move.

But, Grace realizes with a jolt, she can be that for Frankie, can let her see everything she’s offering—no jokes or questions about it.

Grace steps forward, closes the distance that had pulled them apart again. Her hands find Frankie’s arms first, one coming up to hold her jaw, thumb sweeping across her cheekbone. “I’m not going anywhere this time. I promise.” A kiss to the forehead, like Frankie had asked for all those years ago, only to have Grace deny her in a moment of panic about why—dear god, why—the thought of pressing her lips to any part of Frankie had sent her heart pounding. Then Frankie’s cheeks, one after the other. Grace pauses, waiting, centimeters away from Frankie’s mouth. “I promise,” she whispers again, the words ghosting across Frankie’s lips. Her eyes flutter shut as she leans forward, her mouth finding Frankie’s. Just one kiss. One sealed promise. One hint of what might be waiting for them.

When she pulls back, she finds Frankie blinking at her. Everything is still and silent for a long moment.

Frankie’s hand reaches out, tangling around her own. “Let’s go home.”

[fatrainbowmermaidunicorn]

Art Class (Jungkook x You ONESHOT)

A/N: Thankyou for this fantastic request but unfortunately no, I dont do full on smut, not because I'm against it or anything but I just think I'm not that good at it yet. But I  tried make it as  sexy as I can, I hope you will enjoy this story that I have come up with nevertheless <3 and sorry its not that long, 3k words.

Implied smut/light smut? (Is there such things as light smut?)

MASTERLIST

"Your project for this term is Precious. You will need to draw and paint something precious to you, focusing solely on the item. I want to see how you highlight this precious item of yours, how you are going to make it stand out from an unique background," The art professor explain as she hands out their project brief. Jungkook read the paper given and huffed, his mind spinning trying to find the perfect inspiration on what to do.

The project boggled his mind for the whole day, even as he slumped down on the couch next to his roomate, the one and only Kim Taehyung who is watching a movie while stuffing his face with popcorn.

"What's with you?" He eyed Jungkook. "I swear Kook, you are the most stressed out art student I have ever met,"

"We have a new project,"

"And?"

"I cant seem to think of anything. Nothing. Not even one inspiration comes to mind. It counts for almost 50 percent of my grade this semester. I'm screwed if I dont ace it," he whined. Taehyung turned his body to face him.

"Okay, tell me what its about. I'm sure me and my absolutely great mind will be able to help you," he grins. Despite not believing that Taehyung could ever help him, Jungkook still explain the project brief to his hyung. Taehyung nodded and his brows crased as he thought hard.

"I dont know Tae. Everybody is doing the same thing. Placing their precious item on a blank wall, a green grass, a wooden plank... its all so typical. I need something else to make my work popped up from the rest," Taehyung look at the disgruntled maknae and finally an idea spark his mind.

"I have an idea, but I dont think either you or Y/N would like it," he smirked.

"Y/N? What does my girlfriend has to do with this?" Jungkook raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, your girlfriend has everything to do with it," Taehyung wiggled his eyebrows. Taehyung is always mischievious, his idea always makes one of them end up in a very very bad situation. What is his hyung up to now? "Do you want to hear it or not?" Taehyung rolled his eyes at the reluctant younger male.

"Fine. Just tell me. What is it?" Jungkook huffed. He got nothing to lose if he listen to Taehyung's crazy ideas anyway, so he might as well jist hear it. Maybe it could spark some inspiration for him.

Taehyung grinned, his smile widen as his eyes twinkled. Jungkook already had a bad feeling about this, and what comes out from Taehyung's mouth next proves that he is right. "Do you still remember what you learned last semester?"

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Jungkook ran his hand all over his face for the millionth time, thinking about how he is supposed to even ask you for this favor. Even just the simple thought of you is already enough to make him restless all night, how is he going to proceed with Taehyung's idea?

You and him has been dating for more than six months now. Your relationship is great. You two are in love, and Jungkook is an amazing boyfriend, but the two of you havent done anything more other than some intense makeout session and some slight groping here and there whenever you two spend the night with each other. You had wanted more since the first moment you saw him, but just your luck, your boyfriend is a total gentleman who believes in romantic gestures and waiting for the right time. His intention is sweet but really, you are so in love with him you are willing to give him everything if he just asks of you.

"Hey baby," he leaned in to kiss you as you plopped down on his bed, putting your bag and books on his table, kissing him back. God, you just cant get enough of him.

"Hi Kookie. So what's up?" You smiled at him. He had invited you to his room, saying he has a favor to ask you. Something to do with his art class. Jungkook is an art major, and he has an incrdible talent in drawing and painting too. But like every other great artists out there, sometimes he rans out of inspiration and calls you up to help him. The two of you would go out and talk about everything, just so he can find something that might spark his interest again. You look at your boyfriend who is nervously fiddling with his hands. Weird, he was never this nervous when talking about art.

"I... I need you to help me model for my art class," he stuttered, but you still find him absolutely adorable.

"I know Kookie. You told me that," you giggled. Why is he so nervous? This is not the first time you have model for him for his classes. "So... what can I help you with? What's the theme?"

"Precious. We are supposed to draw something that is precious to us, but with a unique background. The professor wants to see how we can turn the focus of drawing on the item instead of the background," he explained, voice still has a hint of nervousness.

"Oh, interesting," you smile. "I'm sure you have some interesting ideas Kookie. So what's your item?" Jungkook went over his table and took out an expensive jewellery box, making you even more curious.

"This belongs to my late mother. And I have always keeps it with me," He took out a huge necklace with a blue sapphire diamond heart in the middle of it. Your eyes widen, its the most beautiful thing you have ever seen.

"So you want me to wear this and pose for you?" You held the beautiful necklace between your fingers, examining how it shines between your skin.

"Ye...yes," he fumbled looking at you. You looked back at him, confused to as why he is nervous. Wearing a necklace and pose, nothing big right?

"Okay. Seems easy enough," you smile. "I can easily do that,"

"But... I dont only want you to wear the necklace," Jungkook gulp, hands fiddling with the necklace, as if trying to find some courage, before continuing. You raised an eyebrow questioningly at him. What does he means? "I want you to wear only the necklace..."

Your head immediately snapped around to look at him. Did you heard him correctly? Did he meant what you think he meant?

"Wh...what?"

"I want to draw you while you are wearing this. Only wearing this," he held up the necklace, voice more confident now as he stares into your eyes. You were silenced for a minute as you heard his request loud and clear. You can already feel something stirring at the lower part of your body as you imagined posing nude for him.

Posing nude for Jeon Jungkook.

"O..okay," you breathed out your agreement after pondering for a moment.

Jungkook's eyes widen at your answer. He thought you would slap him silly and never want to ever talk to him again, but instead, here you are, nervous and surprised, of course, but still, agreed.

"Okay?" He reconfirms, still not believing it.

"Yes Jungkook. Okay," you smile.

Jungkook felt his heart starts to beat faster and his palms turns sweaty  Drawing and painting a nude model during his last semester is already a huge problem for Jungkook. He was a nervous wreck the first time the life model took off her robe and stood in front of his class last semester. Sure, he is no innocent. He has been with his fair share of girls before,

But you?

Drawing a naked you?

How the hell is he supposed to survive that?

He is not sure how he is able to control himself when you are strip bare in front of him. He is not sure he can control anything with you standing in front of him.

He has the biggest crush on you for years before he found the courage and managed to finally call you as his own. And he had to calm himself down multiple times, sometimes even a long toilet break is needed whenever you spend the night with him, cuddling or after a long makeout session. Can he get out of this assignment alive? Should he just scrap the idea? He knew it, listening to Taehyung never did him any good.

You giggle when you noticed Jungkook's shocked expression and he dazed out. He immediately cleared his throat at the sound of your laugh and went to sit behind his easel.

"So... are we doing this now?" You asks, making Jungkook's face turned red like a tomato.

"Urm... yes. If you are up to it. Whenever you are ready," he tried to stay calm.

"Okay. Lets do it today then," you smile as he nodded.

You stood up slowly from his bed and start to slid the straps of your dress down your shoulders, slowly, almost teasingly. Jungkook's eyes never left you and you saw him take big gulps or air as he seems to have trouble breathing. You let your dress drop to the floor, revealing your almost bare body, only clad in your innocent white undergarments before you take the necklace and wear it, the diamond felt cold as it lay flat between the valley of your breasts, all the while eyes never leaving his. Jungkook's eyes roam down your body and you can see how hard he is gripping his pencil for some self restrain. You patted the necklace once you were done, your hands went behind your back and starts to undo you bra claspes, slowly sliding the straps of your shoulder, finally revealing you bare chest to Jungkook's prying eyes. You feel your heart beat increased under Jungkook's blazing stare, and you start to rub your thighs together, feeling yourself getting wetter and wetter.

Jungkook cant control his breathing any longer as he stares at your very naked chest. He feels like he is about to faint. He had spend many nights imagining how you would look like,  a gazzilion times maybe, but this... ypu standing bare in front of him, smiling at him with blushing cheeks... you are more beautiful than anything he could have ever imagined. If he feel like fainting the moment before, he is sure he is dying the moment you slid down you panties past your smooth long legs and slowly step out of it, leaving yourself fully bare to him. Jungkook's breath starts to staggered and he almost broke the pencil that he is holding too tightly when you purposely ran your hands down your body agonizingly slow and soft over your core, which is glistening with how wet you were, teasing him, eyes boring deep intp his dark ones. You finaly decide to stop teasing him and sat down on the bed, laying down across the mattress, spreading yourself a little, purposely letting him see all of you.

"How do you want me?" You asks, as if its the most normal question in the world and you are just posing for another one of his usual projects. Jungkook gulp, his mouth is dry, unable to answer. I want you under me. Is the only answer Jungkook can think about. You adjusted yourself on the bed when you received no response from your boyfriend who just continued staring at you, trying out different position and settled on one that you think is suitable. "Is this position okay?" You asks innocently, cocking your head to the side. Jungkook can see the wetness in your core as you spread for him even more, making him lick his bottom lip unconciously, which makes you let out a little giggle. You know exactly what you are doing to him and you like it. You just hope you will get what you want at the end of the day.

He avoided your gaze and try to calm himself down. This is an assigment Jungkook. An assignment. But when he tried to settle his eyes on you, you were already looking at him, eyes wide and biting your lower lip. You look so innocent but sinful at the same time, Jungkook feel like he is just about to burst. He can feel himself start to grow harder snd harder and he cursed himself for wearing such a thin sweatpants. You are surely going to notice his hardening erection at this rate.

And he is right. You did.

He adjusted himself on his stool and try focus on his drawing instead. Its an assignment Jungkook. An assignment!

"I'm going to start now," he announced, clearing his throat. You nodded silently as you lick you dry lower lip nervously, an action that didnt go unnoticed by Jungkook, making him groaned internally. Why is he putting himself through this torture?

Jungkook starts off from the top of your head and slowly move on to your face. He lightly sketches your face, capturing every crease, crook, contour and line of your features, silently praising how beautiful you are and how proud he is that you are his. His hands starts to shake as he move on to your neck, hands gracefully sketching the necklace, the supposed main focus of the painting, and your chest area. He nervousky gazed his eyes to the rest of you, which is in a laying down form, your eyes staring back at him when he flicked his eyes to your face, before continuing down your body.

Your chest.

Your naked chest.

His grip on his pencil tighten as he noticed how your nipples are getting harder, turning into hard nubs under the cold air and his intense gaze. It took everything in him to not just walked over to you capture one of the harden nubs into his mouth. He shakes his head, clearing the image out of his mind and continue sketching and drawing, trying his best to concerntrate when you suddenly let out an accidental moan when your leg hit the bed frame when you tried to readjust your position. At the sound of your moaning Jungkook lost all of his self restrain, the pencil in his grip broken from how hard he is holding it. He stood up suddenly, causinfmg the wooden stool he was sitting on fall down and marched towards you, eyes dark and blown.

"Jung... Jungkook? Are.. are you okay?"

"Dont act so innocent Y/N. You know exactly what you are doing to me. You know I am definitely not okay," he hissed before crashing his lips against yours, his body pining your naked one on the bed. Taken by surprised, your eyes widen as he kiss you before you realized the situation and start to kiss him back, suddenly very aware of how naked you are and how fully clothed Jungkook is when you feel his hands roaming all over your body. Every inch that his fingers grazed felt like it was on fire and you want nothing more than to feel his bare skin on yours.

"Can you feel this? This is what you do to me," He grind his clothed erection which is extremely hard by now, on your wet core, making you moan even louder. "Louder baby. Let me hear you," he coaxed, his hands quickly taking off his own suffocating clothing, presenting you with taut abs and muscle thighs that left you gapping as he leaned in to kiss along your neck and jawline, his fingers fiddling with the necklace while the other went down your body, stopping and touching where you wanted him the most, inserting a finger in.

"Look at you. So wet. You are supposed to help me with my assignment baby, not teasing me," he growled as his hands never stop touching and thrusting into you. You lost all your ability to spit out coherent words as his fingers continue their ministration, but struggle to say something to him as you realized he is waiting for an answer from you.

"I.. I am he... helping you," you answered back between pants and moans, the pleasure Jungkook's giving you starts to increased as he moved faster.

"Oh really? You are helping me? I should properly thank you then," he whispered as he bite an earlobe, he fingers that has been thrusting into you leaving your core, making you feel empty, but that only lasted for a second before he slid himself in you in one swift motion, without warning.

"Ahh, Jungkook..."

The two of you rolled off each other, sweaty and still panting from the extreme pleasure you just felt. Jungkook gave you a quick kiss on the lips and smile at you. "I love you Y/N. You know that right?"

You nodded shyly. "I love you too Jeon Jungkook,"

He pulled you closer to his sweaty chest and hug you tight, his fingers playing with the necklace. "This really suits you. You should wear it more often," he said making you smile. "But only this," he winked.

You blushed and buried your face in his chest. He tucked your head under his chin and kiss your hair as you hear him mumble.

"But I dont think my item will stand out more than the background though," he said while he loosen his hold and eyed your body up and down, making you blush even harder. You hide your face in the crook of his neck as he laugh at your adorable shyness.

"But still, for the first time in my life, I am so glad I listen to Tae-hyung's idea,"

[nickikpopart]

Backstory Part 2... New Year`s Eve

Happy New Year Everyone ;)

My writing partner @golden-kookmin in crime gave you a surprise yesterday with a lot of new plots. And i will give you something to sweeten your first Day of the New Year. I think some of you were waiting for it. So enjoy it. Oooh, and please be gentle with me. It was my first time writing this. 

Credit for a part in the beginning of the story goes to @golden-kookmin ;)

Warning!! Mature content ahead. If you not used to it don´t read it.

“Sweet New Years eve”

Others POV…

It was the first day of the New Year. Jimin was waking up at 10 am with two arms that were wrapped around him and holding him tidily. He moved a little and turned around to look at the sleeping face of the person he is falling in love with every day a little more. Jungkook looked so beautiful while sleeping, his hair hanging slightly over his eyes. Jimin started to think while looking at him. They hadn´t done it yet. Even they almost sleeping beside each other every night but the last days were so stressful and they didn´t had much time for each other. Jimin is mostly at Jungkooks place because it is more convenient for him, his work is near. He don´t wanted to wait any longer and thought it would be a nice idea to start the New Year with something sweet. 

short flashback...

"Honestly i like it that we are alone." said Jimin while hugging his Boyfriend. "I really thought that Jin and Tae would have liked to celebrate with us but i think i like it that way better." Jungkook said while holding him thight.

“Yeah, Tae didn´t saw his family in a while so i understand him and Jin, we will see him tomorrow and i think its nice that he is with Namjoon now, that gives me a good feeling. It´s kinda romantic. You and me alone here on the rooftop and its almost 12 am." Jimin is smiling while they were cuddling under the blanket.

“Hyung, only a  minute and it’s midnight. Let’s get up and start counting down!” He felt really excited. This was his first new year’s eve with Jimin and it gotta be the best one yet so far he had in his entire life. 

They both kept an eye on their phone. The countdown was about to start. “Ten….. Nine….. Eight….. Seven…. Six…… Five…. Four…… Three…… Two….One. Happy New Year!!!!”

As fireworks were starting to get off around them fro neighboring rooftops Jungkook pulled Jimin as close as possible before he leaned in to press his lips against Jimin’s; kissing him for the very first time in the new year. He was certain this upcoming year was going to be wonderful with such a great start like this. 

"Happy New Year my little Birdie." "Happy New Year Kookie"

Back to were we were.... 

He started caressing Jungkooks face with his fingertips. Jungkook was humming under his touch and open his eyes slowly and looked at Jimin.

“Good Morning Baby. What you doing?” Jungkook was sliding one hand over to Jimins waist and the other behind his neck. He pushed him down on his back started to kiss his cheeks first before crashing his lips on Jimins. First Jimin thought, was he reading my mind but then soon he let himself fall into it.  The kiss got more and more passionate. Jungkook was drawing soft circles on Jimins waist which made him moan softly. He bit on his bottom-lip which made Jimin gasp. He open his mouth and Jungkook took this as an invitation to slide his tongue inside. He felt that Jimins grip on his back tightened immediately, which would left bruises behind and to be honest he liked it. After some minutes of intense kissing they backed off to breath.

“Are you up to something?” Jungkook said while smiling. “Tell me.”

“Why not, you don´t want to?” Jimin asked still out of breath. “I can sense you are already up to something to.” Jimins raspy morning voice was so hot, Jungkook thought and he gasp as Jimin suddenly slighted his hand down over his already growing bulge. Jimin started palming him through his sweater pants and Jungkook let his hands sliding under his shirt to caressing the skin on his chest. Jimin moaned by the contact of Jungkooks hands with his skin. He pushed him away to take of his and Jungkooks clothes just let them in their boxers. Jungkook hovered over him and were press their bodies at each other, feeling the delicious friction between their legs which made both growling and moaning loudly.

“Jungkook-ah….” Jimin said whimphering. Jungkook started kissing him again down his jaw to his neck. When he found Jimins sensitive spot, he started sucking on it, which made Jimin moaning loudly again. He left some hickies around his neck and his collarbones.

“Oh god, how can someone, who looks so sweet letting out so sinful moans.” Jungkook was so fascinated by that. He learned some new sides of his Boyfriend. Jimin looked at him heavy breathing but smiling.

“This is just because, your tounge and your hands making me so crazy.” Jimin said while tucking at Jungkooks boxers to give him a sign to take them off. And Jungkook took the message fast. In one slide he took his and Jimins off. Now both naked Jungkook took a moment to admire his boyfriend’s body. Jimins shyness kicked in somehow and he hided his face behind his hands.

“Don´t hide your face from me, Baby. My god, you are so damn beautiful.” Jungkook said while wrapping again his arms around him and flipped them over, so that Jimin now were laying on his chest. He was looking deep in his eyes. Jimin saw so much love in his eyes, so he couldn´t hold himself back anymore.

“I…” Jimin thought if it would be the right time.

“Yeah… say it.” Jungkook seems to have a sense what he was about to say.

“I… I love you, Kookie.” There it was and it was honest and true.

“Wow… really.” Jungkook teased him a little which made Jimins smile almost gone. “I love you too, Jimin.” Jimin had tears in in eyes when Jungkook said it. It were happy tears. Jungkook kissed them away and were holding him even tighter now.

“Jungkook, do you allow me.” Jimin said while sliding his hand down to Jungkooks almost hard member started to move his hand up and down. Jungkooks gasp by the contact and Jimin started to kiss him down on his chest leaving some beautiful hickes and more further until he reached his inner thighs. Jungkooks grip in the sheets tightened when jimin started licking down his shaft, up until he reached his slit. Jungkook was a moaning mess when Jimin took him full in his mouth and started to boob up and down. He grabbed softly into jimins hair to guide him along his member.

“Jiminie, Baby… huhhhhh… ahhhh. Please don´t stop.” Jungkook felt the heat rising in his stomach. Jimin felt it to but he had other plans. He wanted to feel him whole. So he stopped soon when he felt Jungkooks climax was near. Jungkook whined by the loose of the warm contact.

“What you doing? Why you stopped?” Jungkook looked at him with his puppy eyes, pouting.

“I want to feel you Jungkook. Please, I want you inside me.” Jimin grinding with his chest over Jungkooks hard member and sliding up until he could look in his eyes. He started kissing him again. Jungkook still panting were holding him while flipping them over so that Jimin now were laying under him.

“As you wish.” He said while taking off one hand to take the lupe and a condom out of the nightstand. He putted a little amount of lupe on his fingers and started push one finger into Jimins entrance. Jimin arched his back by the first contact but adjusted fast when Jungkook started to move his finger in and out.

“Tell me when it hurts you, ok!” Jungkook said softly while putting a second finger inside to stretch him out.

“Uhuuuuu… hmmm. It´s ok. You can go on.” Jimin really enjoyed Jungkooks hands. It gave him already a warm feeling and he felt pleasured. After some time, Jungkook thought Jimin were ready so he was about to open the condom package, but Jimin stopped him.

“No, please. I want to feel you. I trust you.” Jungkook looked into Jimins eyes to make sure he really want it.

“Do you really… Is it ok?” He was still unsure about it. "It´s my first time and i want to do it right."

“Yes it is. Don´t worry, ok Kookie.  Now come and show me how much you love me.” Jimin smirked and Jungkook waisted no time anymore. He putted an amount of lupe on his hand and let it slighting up and down on his hard one, while his other hand were softly caressing Jimin inner tighs which made him shiver.

"Kookie please, i want you inside me." Jimin was whinning because he couldn´t bear it anymore. Jungkook settle himself inbetween Jimins legs and started to lining up himself inside him. While he let Jimin adjust to his not so small size, he kissed him to distracted him from the pain he might cause him.

"Are you ok, Baby? Tell me when you ready." Jungkook said softly into Jimins ear after nibbling on his earloop which send shiver through Jimins body.

"I´m ready, Bunny. You can move." Jimin said giggeling.

"Bunny... huh." Jungkook looked surprised. "It´s kinda cute.. i like it."

"Hehe... hey, can you..." Jimin giggled, still waiting for Jungkook to move on with what they started.

"Oh, hehehe... Yeah." Jungkook smirked and started to move in and out which let Jimin arching his back and moaning loudly. Jimins moans were music to Jungkook ears and he wanted to hear more.

"Bunny, faster please." Jimin said whimpering and moaning. Jungkook fasten up and he knew he hitted the right spot when Jimin had let out a high pitch moan. He worked on there which made Jimin into a whimpering mess. Jungkook was looking at him the whole time, while Jimin had closed his eyes and moaned loudly. Jungkooks groans got louder to when he felt his climax building up. Jimin was about to come soon too because he tightend around him.

"Bunny, i´m ... ahhh.. " Jimin couldn´t hold it in any longer.

"Baby, come for me." Jungkook said while keeping his pace fast and steady. And both came with a long moan inbetween seconds. Jungkook was riding out their orgasm and was falling onto Jimins chest arms wrapped around him. Jimin was panting hard but his hands found its way around Jungkooks neck and into his hair stroking it softly. After some minutes Jungkook pulled out of Jimin and let himself falling beside him. Jimin whined a little at the lose but was happy.

"Hey...." he said while turning to the side to look at his still heaving breathing boyfriend.

"Hey, how do you feel?" Jungkook ask while turning to him. "Wow... this was... amazing. Your voice is so... soo.. sexy."

"Ahhh, Kookie. Don´t make me blush." Jimin was covering his face with his hands. "And yes it was really amazing."

"What... awwhhh, you are so cute. Don´t hide your face ok." Jungkooks took Jimins hand to make him look at him. "Come her." He said while pulling him into his arms.

"Kookie, we need to clean up." Jimin said while grabbing the tissues from the nightstand. After the cleaning Jungkook put the blanket over them. Jungkook pulled Jimin into a tight hug. He looked at Jimin and kissed him softly. It was a kiss full of Love and happiness.

"I love you my little birdie." "I love you to Bunny." 

Suddenly, the phone beeped. Jungkook grabbed his phone and looked at the message he got from Jin and he chuckled. How could he forget that, but yeah you know... how could he not after what happen some minutes ago... he was smiling by that thought.

"Hey were are you both? You wanted to come over for lunch." "Sorry hyung, i explain later..."

To be continued...

HOW TO DRAW LOVE AU ( 15-16/? )

Jimin follows a well known artist on Facebook; not knowing it is Jungkook; a boy he met two years ago and fell for despite being in a relationship. Jungkook suddenly disappeared on him without saying why and left Jimin with a lot of “what ifs”.

[briangroth27]

Legion Season 1 Review

FX's Legion, based on the X-men character, brought a fresh flavor to superhero shows last season; absolutely key to keeping the genre alive with so many series airing at once. All the acting was solid, the characters were likable, and it had enough classic mutant/human relations to feel like an X-men story even without the prejudice metaphor as a major presence. The production design was distinct and perfectly “off-kilter cool,” placing the show anywhere from the 60s to the not-so-distant future in the same way Batman The Animated Series blended the 30s and 90s. The direction and editing were masterful, seamlessly blending reality, memories, the astral plane, fantasies, and nightmares into an easy to follow narrative (if you paid attention; Legion refused to be a show you just have on in the background while doing other things). There were times the editing came off as just a bit confusing, with flashbacks, flashbacks within flashbacks, memory-jumping, hallucinations, and the like all happening at once, but that uncertainty served to put us directly into David Haller's (Dan Stevens) fractured frame of mind.

Full Spoilers…

As clever and ingenious as the visuals and editing were, however, I don’t think the story itself is was mind-blowing or groundbreaking as a lot of reviews have said. The first three episodes covered well-trod superhero ground: a shadowy government organization chasing/studying David, a “school” where he’s taken to learn about and control his powers, a mysterious villain who wants to use him for its own nefarious purposes, etc. It felt a lot like the setup of the first X-men film, swapping jumbled memories for confused flashbacks and the Demon with Yellow Eyes (Quinton Boisclair) for Sabretooth/Magneto (with Stryker’s military attack force from X2 thrown in for good measure). Once the show got to episode four, however, the focus on the villain and their unique plan of attack spun the show in another, much more original direction. It seemed to really take off at that point and didn’t stop till the finale.

David Haller is a compelling lead and brought a good balance of fun (though not one-liners or laugh-out-loud comedy) and bewilderment to what was going on around and within him. Stevens made what could've easily been a campy or "kooky" performance feel real, but not like he was asking for our pity. I also thought he was a good romantic lead and his relationship with Syd (Rachel Keller) felt real, even though we only saw them together for a short time. When he needed to be—when the Shadow King is in control—he’s also very unnerving, slaughtering Division 3 agents left and right with a smile. I will say David never seemed crazy to me. Maybe it’s because I knew he had telepathy and wasn’t just hearing voices, but outside of an inability to keep a handle on when "now" is he seemed relatively healthy. Perhaps that’s because mentally ill people in shows are often portrayed more over the top than David was. For a good chunk of the season, I thought this might be the story of how he goes insane. I later thought Lenny was sticking around because he was absorbing the powers and personalities of the people around him (providing the comics’ David’s multiple personalities with different abilities), but it doesn’t look like the show is going that route yet. I’m glad they never made everyone a personality of David’s, though; it seemed like that would be too easy and maybe of a waste of all these new characters. They did, however, homage that with David talking to his rational side in a great nod to his comics’ dissociative disorder (and his British accent!), giving us his origin story and the backstory on the Shadow King via animation. Now that he’s free of Farouk, I can’t wait to see how David responds to being alone in his head for the first time in his life.

I called Shadow King/Ahmal Farouk as the main villain after the first episode, but was thrown off the trail for a while since one of the few things I knew about comics Legion is he’s got dissociative identity disorder; I thought the Demon with the Yellow Eyes might be a different personality of David’s. Nevertheless, this was my favorite depiction of the Shadow King so far and I loved how creepy they were willing to go with his various personas, particularly the World’s Angriest Boy in the World (Devyn Dalton). I’ve wanted a Shadow King appearance in live action X-media for years and this was an excellent introduction! Aubrey Plaza was fantastic as his favorite form, Lenny, and her ability to pinball from friendly to insane to creepy to funny was a highlight of the series. I loved that his backstory was more or less taken directly from the comics, and Xavier’s destruction of his body made revenge via stealing David’s the perfect plan. They did a great job giving David, who has so many powers, more than an equal as his nemesis. I did expect more from the Shadow King trying to fight for David’s body in the finale, but now that the internal conflict has been made external, I can’t wait to see what he does next. His escape from the facility, leaping from body to body, reminded me of the 90′s X-men Animated Series. I hope he’s off to track down Xavier next season.

The supporting cast felt authentically "off" and not like they were trying to be quirky or "insane" or anything. Over the course of just eight episodes, it was difficult to find time to explore most of them in great depth, but I enjoyed just about all of them and loved that the show never shied away from the presence and use of their powers. It was great that they used them in concert to free themselves from David’s mind; I love the X-men movies, but the times when their specific powers are needed and fit together to save the day have been few and far between. Thematically it’s stronger if your pseudo-family unit is the only one that can help work you out of whatever situation you’re in, rather than just any strong guy (sorry, Guido).

The best-developed and most likable of the supporting characters was Sydney Barrett. I loved Syd explaining how she sees the world and her concept of the soul thanks to her ability to swap bodies with people. It's always fascinating to me when superhero stories show us how the characters' outlooks are changed by their powers, so this was gold to me. Her talk with David about being in each other's bodies was fun and sweet, and allowing them to be intimate on the astral plane was a clever workaround to her inability to touch anyone. The one issue I had with Syd’s character was that it was a little unclear how her body-swapping worked, particularly when it appeared that her physical form would snap back to wherever her swapping partner was, rather than just her consciousness jumping back and forth.

I initially thought Carey (Bill Irwin) came off as crazy for the sake of being crazy, with him saying random words to "himself" that confused David, but I eventually enjoyed the unorthodox relationship he had with his other half, Kerry (Amber Midthunder). Kerry not knowing about the most basic components of human existence because she spends so much time inside Carey felt like a classic bit of X-men weirdness. The personality difference between them also felt note-perfect, as if Kerry took all the fight and assertiveness while Carey housed all the brains and trepidation from a single personality. Once Kerry decided she didn’t want to go back inside Carey, their relationship got even more interesting!

Jeremie Harris’ Ptonomy Wallace and his cool, calm attitude was a smart balance to the near-insanity of the other characters. His Inception-like dream navigating powers were cool and, given their low-tech application, allowed the show to use them often. I would’ve liked to get to know him better, so hopefully we will in Season 2. Melanie Bird (Jean Smart) was a solid Xavier stand-in for this mutant cell, but I wonder if her comment about humans being dinosaurs and going extinct in the face of mutants’ rise wasn’t just bravado, but a hint at something darker. I wouldn’t mind a twist where this team ended up being more in line with the Brotherhood than the X-men, or occupied a gray area between the two. Bird’s strained relationship with her husband Oliver (Jemaine Clement) was a tragic addition to the show and I hope that gets explored further next season. Oliver was an unorthodox delight, having spent so many years locked on the astral plane that he’d lost touch with reality. His interactions with everyone were fun, and I can’t wait to see him and Aubrey Plaza share scenes now that Farouk is in his head!

It was clever that all the heroes’ powers reflected the Shadow King in one way or another, but I wonder why it wasn’t made a bigger deal. We could’ve at least had a conversation between David and Carey/Kerry about living with another consciousness inside you. Maybe we could’ve gotten Kerry's perspective on being the other consciousness. Oliver being trapped in the Astral Plane as opposed to his body paralleled Farouk nicely and foreshadowed their eventual bond. Syd swapping bodies also reflected Farouk, so his opinion of her take on the soul would’ve been interesting to get. More importantly, her history with her mother’s boyfriend was a lot darker than I expected, and it’s essentially the same thing Farouk has been doing to David: stealing a body for his own purposes. Is it any better that Syd’s heist was only temporary? Ptonomy having the power to jump into other people's memories and the freedom to bypass boundaries could’ve given us insight into Farouk. Perhaps David will look for ways to get inside Farouk’s head next season and these parallels can be utilized then.

While the main mutants were engaging, if a little unexplored due to time constraints, the humans didn’t fare nearly as well. When she was kidnapped, I wasn’t concerned for David’s sister Amy (Katie Asleton) at all; her rescue seemed inevitable and I didn’t feel like I knew her well enough to be invested beyond “she’s a human in danger.” The government bad guys felt like stock X-men bad guys, and while that was fine for the pilot, they never really came together as a real threat or sympathetic on their own merits. David’s effortless thrashing of the entire Division 3 when he went to save his sister (and later, another squad of them at the end of the season) proved they aren’t any threat to the mutants. The Eye (Mackenzie Gray) was suitably imposing (if underutilized), but unless his power is “sensing astral projections,” I couldn’t tell you what his ability was. I wish they’d done more with him; killing him felt like a waste. Clark’s (Hamish Linklater) last-minute catch-up while we watched him heal from his injuries and learned about his family didn’t endear him to me (it was just too little, too late). I also don’t buy at all that we’d been watching David with the team for the several months to a year it must’ve taken Clark to recuperate from his injuries; it felt like the season happened over the course of maybe two weeks. Still, Clark agreeing to help the mutants against Farouk was an unexpected and enjoyable moment of common sense. I admired his rationality in that moment. I wonder if they’d spin mutant/human relations in a much less antagonistic direction then we normally see in X-men stories. In their earliest adventures (and First Class), at least some government agents were willing to work with them, so perhaps that’s where this is going.Maybe with more time to get to know Clark and his family, he’d be more sympathetic.

All in all, this was a solid season that really became something unique after episode 3, so I'm absolutely down for season 2. Using a typical superhero “recruit the hero, save the girl” setup to springboard into a battle for David’s psyche was a genius twist and propelled the show into unexplored territory. Few shows have the guts to go completely bonkers and still (a) make sense and (b) fully commit to the insanity, and this one absolutely did. Every single week my sister would text me going “why is Legion so WEIRD?” and she was absolutely right, in the best way. There were some standout sequences, like the noiseless horror film-inspired exploration of David’s childhood home and the silent film escape from his brain. I can't wait to see what Shadow King—and Legion—does next!

The eight-episode first season is on Hulu, and is definitely worth checking out!

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